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October 8, 2020

Amnesty calls for ban on guns near polling stations during US elections

The majority of states have no laws regarding armed private citizens in or around polling stations.
September 16, 2020

ACLU launches campaign to encourage voting and educate on vote by mail

Voters need to know how to advocate for their constitutional right to cast a ballot when obstacles are thrown in their way, says the ACLU.
June 26, 2020

BME groups sound alarm over ‘US style voter suppression’ through mandatory voter ID plans

There was just one proven case of ‘personation’ fraud in the whole of the UK in 2019.
May 25, 2020

Polling finds a growing political consensus on social care

There is a cross-party consensus building around social care, free at the point of use and funded by general taxation, new polling has found.
April 23, 2020

Court of Appeal to hear legal challenge to voter ID pilot scheme

The Windrush scandal showed that many British citizens do not have official documentation, and it is argued that some 7.5 per cent of the electorate do not possess photo ID.
April 4, 2020

Further legal action taken on provisions for blind voters

In May 2019, a judge described the existing arrangements unlawful and “a parody of the electoral process”.
February 2, 2020

Voter dissatisfaction 'at an all-time high'

A new report suggests that Britain’s system of democracy is responsible for increasing polarisation, forcing citizens into opposing tribes and making voters less likely to accept the mandate of rival political parties.
December 29, 2019

One in six Commons seats 'effectively unearned under warped voting system'

The Conservatives largely benefited from the discrepancy between votes and seats, winning a majority of seats on a minority of the vote.
December 14, 2019

Parties need ‘wildly different' number of votes to get an MP elected

Electoral Reform Society analysis of the general election results has revealed the ‘absurdity’ of Westminster’s voting system, with parties needing wildly different levels of support to secure each MP.
December 3, 2019

Nearly 200 parliamentary seats have not changed hands since World War II

This election should be the last ever conducted under the First Past the Post system which has shut out so many voices, says the Electoral Reform Society.