5 Improving electoral registration
47. Our interim report looked at several ways electoral
registration in the UK could be improved, and recommended a number
of changes to current arrangements, including:
· Making
registration automatic;
· Prompting people
to register to vote when they access other public services;
· Registering
students to vote at schools and colleges; and
· Letting people
register to vote closer to the date of an election.[95]
We set out below the responses we received on these
proposals, and our revised conclusions and recommendations.
An obligation to register to
vote
48. As we noted in our interim report, it is not
compulsory in the UK for people to register to vote, although
the Electoral Registration Act 2013 does provide for Electoral
Registration Officers to "require [a] person to make an application
for registration by a specified date", and to impose a civil
penalty on anyone failing to do so.[96]
The Association of Electoral Administrators has told us that,
although provisions for compelling people to register to vote
do exist, the process for actually enforcing this was "a
long and costly one", and, since the penalty imposed would
not be retained by the relevant local authority, it was likely
that very few authorities would pursue this route.[97]
The Association stated that a better incentive might be making
registering to vote a requirement to gain access to other public
services such as refuse collection and libraries, a suggestion
supported by a number of others.[98]
49. The majority of survey respondents (over 65%
of 16,000 responses) believed that registration should be compulsory,[99]
although several respondents made the point that this should only
be the case if the register were used exclusively for electoral
purposes, an issue we address later in this report. Comments made
by those opposing compulsory registration cited the difficulty
of enforcement, and that it would not be appropriate to penalise
individuals for "doing nothing". The Electoral Commission
noted its support "for maintaining a responsibility to register
to vote", but said that any further clarification on the
electoral law around this point would be welcome.[100]
That said, Bite the Ballot told us that they "never, ever
hammer home the legal requirements to register", as they
say these "are 'sure-fire', instant turn-offs to young people;
especially those furthest away from politics." Bite the Ballot
instead advocated setting out the benefits of being registered
to votesuch as the relation to credit rating.[101]
The Government told us that it believes that "compelling
someone to register to vote is unlikely to make them more engaged
and therefore more likely to vote."[102]
The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional
and Political Reform told us that the Liberal Democrats had "fought
hard in Government" to retain legal obligations to provide
information to EROs, and to ensure "a civil penalty is
available as a lever of last resort".[103]
Their response stated that they strongly opposed moves to make
registration entirely voluntary.
50. We believe it is an inviolable part of the
obligations of UK citizenship that every citizen should, as a
bare minimum, register to vote. The majority of respondents to
our consultation agreed with our view that registration should
be compulsory, and action must therefore be taken. We recommend
that the legal requirements to register to vote are clarified,
and that this basic civil duty should be enforced. Given the views
expressed to us by the Association of Electoral Administrators
about the time and costs involved in directing individuals to
register to vote, we recommend that this process be rethought
with a view to increasing the use of this power, and thereby increasing
rates of electoral registration.
Automatic registration
51. We have previously recommended that registration
should be automaticmeaning voters would be registered automatically
using information already held by the state, rather than requiring
people to apply to registerand we restated this in our
interim report.[104]
The Electoral Commission has since highlighted the possibility
for "direct registration"where public sector
data is used to identify potential electors and then to add them
to the register without requiring them to complete an application
formnoting that the Australian Electoral Commission was
pursuing this at present, and stating that it would "welcome
the opportunity to explore the feasibility and implications of
such an option with the Government."[105]
The idea of automatic registration was also supported by several
other responses to our consultation.[106]
The Government told us that it believes registering to vote "is
a civic duty and that individuals should take responsibility for
their own vote", stating that this was one of the fundamental
underpinnings of the new system of IER and that this belief was
"incompatible with a system of automatic registration."[107]
52. We reaffirm our view that voters should, ideally,
be registered to vote automatically, using data already held by
the Government. We are pleased that the Electoral Commission would
welcome the opportunity to explore direct registration with the
Government. The Government feels that automatic registration is
incompatible with the idea that registering to vote is a civic
duty and that people should take responsibility for their own
vote. Automatic registration would supplement the efforts of citizens
who register themselves, and Electoral Registration Officers who
invite them to do so. Having such a system run alongside IER would
certainly increase levels of registration, and thereby the number
of people who could then take responsibility for their votehaving
been registered and enabled to do so. We recommend that the
Government take this offer up, and clearly set out its view on
moving to a system of automatic registration early in the next
Parliament, so that changes can be implemented as soon as practicable.
Such a system could operate alongside Individual Electoral Registration.
The open register
53. Our interim report recommended that the open
registeran edited version of the electoral register which
is sold to private companiesbe abolished, on the basis
that personal details gathered for electoral purposes should not
be sold to commercial organisations.[108]
The Electoral Commission shared our view that the open register
should be abolished as soon as practicablea position it
has made clear repeatedly in the past.[109]
The Commission told us that it believes it is "wrong in principle
to combine a request for information for the purposes of electoral
registration with the issue of direct marketing", and noted
that EROs and elected representatives have received complaints
and concerns expressed by electors on this point.[110]
The Commission has told us that it "would be happy to work
with the UK Government and EROs to make the necessary changes
to regulations to discontinue the open register."[111]
The Association of Electoral Administrators has told us that it
"welcomes and fully supports this recommendation",[112]
as has Brent Council.[113]
The only piece of evidence we received arguing that the open register
should continue to be published was from the Government, which
told us that it considered current arrangements for the open register
in 2012, and decided to retain the open register and the option
for people to opt out of appearing on it. The Government noted
that prior to 2002 the full register had been completely open,
and stated that if the current open register were abolished it
is likely there would be strong pressure for wider access to the
electoral register, which could discourage people from registering
to vote.[114]
54. We have previously recommended that the edited
electoral registernow called the "open register"should
be abolished. We reaffirm this call in the light of evidence of
clear and significant public dissatisfaction. We welcome the Electoral
Commission's offer to work with the UK Government to make the
necessary changes to discontinue the open register, and recommend
that the Government take immediate action to abolish the open
electoral register before new registers are published.
National Voter Registration Day
55. On 5 February 2014 Bite the Ballot, a community
interest organisation, launched the first National Voter Registration
Day (NVRD), with a view to registering 100,000 young people ahead
of the May 2014 elections. The campaign led to around 25,000 young
people registering to vote, a result achieved from a budget of
£9,000. In our interim report we noted the importance of
campaigns such as this to supplementing the efforts of electoral
officials, and recommended that the Government, the Electoral
Commission, EROs and other public bodies should put in place specific
plans for NVRD 2015, with a view to taking maximum advantage of
this event so as to increase levels of voter registration ahead
of the 2015 general election.[115]
The Electoral Commission has told us that it will "be supporting
National Voter Registration Day through its social media channels
and will be asking its partners to conduct similar activity to
help raise the profile of the day and to encourage as many people
as possible to register."[116]
The Government told us that it welcomed "all initiatives
including Bite the Ballot's National Voter Registration Day, British
Youth Council's Make Your Mark and Vinspired's Swing the Vote,
that promote democratic engagement and voter registration."[117]
The Government also stated that it was "considering how best
to support activities which fall on 5 February and beyond, to
encourage all groups in society to register to vote", and
that this would include "using social media channels and
using our networks to promote voter registration messages."
56. We welcome the Electoral Commission's statement
that it will be supporting Bite the Ballot's National Voter Registration
Day on 5 February 2015, and also the fact the Government is considering
how best to support activities which fall on National Voter Registration
Day and beyond. We reaffirm the conclusions and recommendations
on this subject we made in paragraphs 128 and 129 of our interim
report.
Prompting people to register
to vote
57. In our interim report, we considered the possibility
of prompting people to register to vote when they accessed a variety
of public servicessuch as when they register to pay council
tax, or register with a GPand also noted the possibility
of EROs working with private companies to better publicise electoral
registration. The Electoral Commission has agreed that "there
is potential for EROs to capitalise on the many interactions citizens
already have with a wide range of public services to help increase
both the accuracy and completeness of electoral registers."[118]
The Association of Electoral Administrators also supported this
recommendation, and suggested that "all public services (including
the former public utilities) should be included in such an arrangement."[119]
The Commission has stated that it will "encourage and work
with the Government and EROs to develop workable proposals for
prompting people to register to vote or update their registration
details when they carry out other key transactions with state
agencies", but notes that this would require "a strong
cross-government agreement". Specific suggestions we received
for occasions when people could usefully be prompted to register
to vote were when they received cards with their National Insurance
numbers and also when private tenants had their deposits registered
with a tenancy deposit protection scheme.[120]
Bite the Ballot supported our recommendation that the Government
make specific proposals about how people could be prompted to
register to vote when they access other public services, and told
us that "the UK can, and should, move to a system that empowers
people to register to vote when they (a) access public services
[
] and (b) interact with Government".[121]
58. The Leader of the Opposition told us that the
Labour Party believed that Government agencies, including the
Passport Office and DVLA, should have a duty placed on them to
raise the issue of voter registration when people come into contact
with them.[122] He
also told us that the Labour Party in Government would give Councils
the power "to create mechanisms to reach private-rented tenants
through Landlord Associations and registers." The Liberal
Democrat Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional and Political
Reform specifically suggested that we challenge HMRC to include
a 'signpost' to online voter registration alongside the notifications
which are sent to every 15 year old of their National Insurance
number, so as to direct young people to register to vote.[123]
The Government has told us that there was an opportunity to explore
how the benefits of IER could be best maximised, and that as part
of this the Cabinet Office was "actively exploring options
for collaboration between online electoral registration and other
public sector digital transactional services."[124]
The Government also told us that the Cabinet Office was "currently
identifying the most appropriate official websites to promote
voter registration by signposting the link to the on-line registration
channel."
59. We reaffirm our previous recommendation, made
in paragraph 133 of our interim report, concerning prompting people
to register to vote when they access other services, and trust
that the additional evidence we have received on this subject
will inform future discussions in this area.
Registration at schools, colleges
and universities
60. Our interim report noted that, given the low
levels of registration of young people, there was a strong case
for making greater efforts to register 16 to 18 year olds at schools
and colleges. We asked the Secretary of State for Education to
promote electoral registration at schools and colleges, and also
called on EROs to work more closely with educational institutions.[125]
The Electoral Commission has told us that its guidance to support
EROs in planning for and delivering IER contains examples of tactics
and activities that can be employed locally by EROs in engaging
with target groups including under-18 year olds and students.[126]
The Commission, working with several partner organisations, has
also written to academic leaders at institutions across Great
Britain to encourage their students to register to vote ahead
of the General Election on 7 May 2015.[127]
Activities academic institutions have been asked to undertake
include:
· E-mailing all
students to let them know they can register at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote;
· Holding
registration drives at the beginning of classes and seminars;
and
· Displaying
posters in college and university buildings.
The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional
and Political Reform told us that "Liberal Democrats are
working in Government to spread best practice among EROs, so that
more approach [16 and 17 year olds] in the place where they can
most easily be found: school or college."[128]
61. In relation to higher education, the Electoral
Commission told us about two particular instances where EROs had
worked with universities on electoral registration. These were:
· In
Sheffield: incorporating electoral registration into the student
registration process, and
· In Lancaster:
having electoral registration information included on university
enrolment software.
· The National
Union of Students told us that they supported efforts to integrate
university and college enrolment with voter registration and stated
that they had worked with organisations including the Electoral
Commission to encourage University Vice-Chancellors to support
action in making it easier and quicker to register to vote. Other
instances given in response to our consultation included having
sixth forms and universities register students, or provide information
to Electoral Registration Officers to enable them to register
young people.[129]
Bite the Ballot specifically requested the extension to Great
Britain of the Northern Ireland "schools initiative",
where further education colleges are obliged to provide the Chief
Electoral Officer with information on student registration so
students can be invited to register to vote.[130]
The Leader of the Opposition told us that the Labour Party in
Government would "legislate to place a responsibility on
schools to hold 'voter registration' sessions when their pupils
reach the appropriate age" and "consider proposals to
ensure Universities integrate the process of voter registration
into enrolment each year."[131]
The Government agreed with us that there was a strong case for
making greater efforts to register 16 to 18 year olds at school
and in college, and told us that the Cabinet Office was working
with the Department for Education on promoting this in schools.[132]
62. Given the low registration rates amongst young
people, there is a strong case for making greater efforts to register
16 to 18 year olds at school and in collegeparticularly
as registration now takes place on an individual basis and can
be done, easily and on-line, from school. We have received several
sensible suggestions for how this could be done, including e-mailing
students with a link to online registration, holding registration
drives at the beginning of classes, and displaying posters in
educational buildings. We recommend that the Secretary of
State for Education promote electoral registration to schools
and colleges, along the lines set out by the Electoral Commission.
EROs also should now be working with schools and colleges to register
students, and we recommend that the Electoral Commission explicitly
include this action in its performance standards for EROs. The
Electoral Commission should also report on the implications of
duplicating in Great Britain the "schools initiative"
that operates in Northern Ireland. All of these proposals could
be integrated with broader citizenship education, and include
a discussion about how to register to vote when moving to university
or away from home. Successful initiatives developed between EROs
and universitiessuch as those in Sheffield and Lancastershould
be replicated across the country.
Electoral Registration Officers
(EROs)
The role of EROs
63. In our interim report we noted that EROs played
a vital role in the electoral registration process, being responsible
for the maintenance of the electoral registers for their area.[133]
As part of making arrangements around electoral registration clearer
to the public, Bite the Ballot has recommended that the Government
"should explain the remit and role of EROs" on the Cabinet
Office website.[134]
64. We welcome Bite the Ballot's recommendation
that the Government should explain the remit and role of Electoral
Registration Officers. Such an explanation would increase the
transparency of the role, and help to ensure that members of the
public know what to expect from their local ERO. We recommend
that the Government publish online an explanation of the role
of EROs, their duties and how members of the public can contact
their local ERO.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR EROS
65. The Electoral Commission produces performance
standards for EROs, and we noted in our interim report that these
had had a positive impact on the performance of EROs, although
there was room for them to be made more stretching by, for example,
including best practice from high performers, so as to encourage
higher levels of voter registration.[135]
The Electoral Commission told us that it had noted a number of
examples of EROs working to enhance voter registration and that
it would "continue to work to support the identification
and sharing of such examples of good practice."[136]
Specifically in relation to IER, the Commission stated that it
had "already been working to facilitate sharing of knowledge
and experiences between EROs facing similar challenges in planning
and preparing for the introduction of IER", and that it planned
to build on this throughout the transition to IER. The Electoral
Commission plans to review the performance standards for EROs
after the transition to IER is complete, but that it "remain[s]
cautious about the feasibility and cost of setting and measuring
registration levels".[137]
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Voter Registration told us:
"The current performance standards, whilst, at first, were
welcome, are now in need of both review and urgent reform to cope
with the nature of the challenge facing EROs and the self-assessed
'tick box' nature of the exercise."[138]
RECOGNISING NOTABLE SUCCESSES
66. Our interim report suggested that notable successes
in electoral registration should be recognised, and we also stated
that MPs should be more closely involved in the process of monitoring
electoral registration and working with EROs.[139]
The Electoral Commission welcomed our view that Parliamentarians
had a vital role to play in working with EROs, and stated that
it would "welcome any parliamentary time given to the scrutiny
of registration issues."[140]
The Association of Electoral Administrators welcomed our recommendation
on recognising notable successes, and considered that "it
should be required as good practice for each ERO to report annually
to his/her local authority on the results of the annual canvass
and other salient registration issues."[141]
The Government told us that this proposal was currently being
discussed by the Cabinet Office and Electoral Commission, stating
that the Electoral Commission had launched a project to identify,
recognise and share 'what works' in relation to elections, and
that the Commission intended to "evaluate its success after
this initial round, with a view to potentially extending it to
cover electoral registration over the 2015 canvass."[142]
67. Although we welcome the fact the Electoral
Commission has launched a project identifying, recognising and
sharing 'what works' in relation to elections, we believe it is
a priority to establish what works in relation to electoral registration,
particularly given the current transition to Individual Electoral
Registration. We recommend that this work begin as soon as
possible, and certainly before the 2015 canvass.
HOUSE TO HOUSE CANVASSING
68. Our interim report noted that EROs had a legal
duty to conduct house-to-house enquiries as part of the canvass.
We called on the Government to communicate this duty much more
strongly, and recommended that enforcement action be taken against
any ERO who repeatedly fails to fulfil the statutory duties in
a way which has an adverse effect on the quality of voter registration
in their area.[143]
The Electoral Commission will be reporting on the 2014 canvass
shortly, and told us that if there were any need to take action
in relation to house-to-house canvassing outside of its reporting
cycle then it would inform us. We have received no such notification.
The Government has told us:
There is no mechanism within the current legal
framework for registration for the Government to take enforcement
action against EROs that do not fulfil their statutory duties
beyond the power to issue a Secretary of State direction under
section 52 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.[144]
The Government added that "prosecutions in England
and Wales are a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS),
which is an independent prosecuting authority and Ministers have
no influence over its decision making."
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
69. Only public authorities listed in the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 are subject to requests for information
under that Act. Electoral Registration Officers are not included
in the list, although local authorities are. In our interim report
we found that this appeared to be an oversight, and recommended
that the Government take action to designate EROs as public authorities
under the FOI Act 2000.[145]
The Electoral Commission subsequently told us that its guidance
for EROs makes clear that while EROs are not a public authority
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, they should where possible
disclose requested information.[146]
Similarly, the Association of Electoral Administrators told us
that it "encourages EROs to respond to requests for information
as though they were subject to the Act and supports this recommendation."[147]
Our recommendation received support from Brent Council, which
stated that this "would allow for greater scrutiny of electoral
registration activity".[148]
The Government agreed that there "is a case for bringing
EROs and ROs under the FOIA", but stated: "There is
insufficient time remaining in this Parliament to complete the
required steps (including formal consultation with EROs and ROs),
so this will necessarily be an issue for the next Government."[149]
CONCLUSION
70. We reaffirm the conclusions and recommendations,
made in paragraphs 104 to 115 of our interim report, concerning
Electoral Registration Officers. We trust the additional evidence
we have received on these points, as set out above, can inform
progress being made on the areas we have considered.
Electoral Commission targets
71. Our interim report challenged one of the Electoral
Commission's measures of success in its corporate plan, which
was that "completeness of the registers does not deteriorate".
We took the view that the current electoral registers were not
sufficiently complete and it would therefore not be a success
for them to merely not deteriorate. The Electoral Commission has
stated:
Across the electoral community there is a widely
shared goal of enabling all eligible people to be able to participate
in elections, and so we all aim to see 100% accurate and complete
electoral registers. However, recognising that there will always
be population movement between registers at any given point in
time, it is difficult to envisage that accuracy and completeness
of greater than 98% is attainable.[150]
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Voter Registration
told us: "If the EC's stated goal is that 'every person eligible
to be registered to vote is on the electoral register' then it
should be encouraged to aspire to near-perfect 100% levels (of
completeness) as possible."[151]
The Government's response to our interim report stated:
As the Electoral Commission is an independent
body established by Parliament, it is overseen by the Speaker's
Committee. Consequently, key performance measures for the Electoral
Commission are a matter for that Committee.[152]
72. The Electoral Commission's goal should be
that every person eligible to be registered to vote is on the
electoral register, and we welcome the Commission's statement
that the electoral community has a shared aim to see 100% accurate
and complete electoral registers. The Commission's aim to have
one million more voters registered ahead of the 2015 general election
is encouraging, and is a substantial increase on previous targets
for registration campaigns, although this is only one step in
resolving the fact that 7.5 million people are not correctly registered
to vote, and that there are also millions of British citizens
living overseas that are not registered to vote.
73. We remain disappointed that one of the Electoral
Commission's key measures of success for the next five years is
that "completeness of the registers does not deteriorate".
As we stated in our interim report, since the level of completeness
for the electoral registers is not currently satisfactory, we
do not consider it to be a success simply for them to deteriorate
no further. We recommend that the Speaker's Committee on
the Electoral Commission review the Electoral Commission's success
measures in respect of voter registration and set much more challenging
measures for the completeness of the electoral register.
74. We reaffirm the conclusions and recommendations,
made in paragraphs 122 and 123 of our interim report, concerning
maximising registration and registration campaigns.
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