Memorandum by Derek Wyatt MP (VOT 05)
1. BOUNDARY COMMISSION
Needs an audit from the NAO—they make
too many fundamental mistakes over boundaries.
2. REGISTRATION
OF ELECTORS
I have lost just over 3,000 voters since 2001
from my electoral roll; the reasons? Three fold—(a) voters
think they are automatically registered when they pay council
tax, (b) poorer funded or poorer led Local Authorities only
send one card out to remind voters to register (used to be two
but that's not a requirement of law) and (c) voters think
that as they registered before they are still registered—why
do voters have to continually re-register? We need to connect
paying local tax with an automatic registration process; why would
Local Authorities not want to cut costs? Or we need to fund a
proper local democracy officer who makes it his or her priority
to chase unregistered voters.
3. REGISTER
This should not be made available for commercial
use.
4. ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION
Suggest a cut off date is announced (2012?)
whereby we move from a paper based registration to an electronic
base.
5. VOTING PER
SE
Make it compulsory.
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