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Millions of People are Unable to Vote in the UK, as Report Reveals Numbers of Foreign Citizens Disenfranchised by Seat
Some parliamentary seats have as many as 30,000 voting-age residents who are unable to vote
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‘Keir Starmer Must Embrace Proportional Representation and End the Coercive Duopoly Throttling Our Democracy’
Britain will never truly change for the better as long as Britain’s deeply unfair voting system remains in place, argues Neal Lawson
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‘A Simple Ban on Political Lying Could Radically Transform Our Politics’
Just one small step would trigger a whole series of positive changes to democratic life in the UK, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Keir Starmer Must Join a Progressive Alliance for a Fairer Voting System or Get Steamrollered by a Reform-Conservative Pact’
The Labour Government is heading for an electoral reckoning unless it backs a more proportional voting system, argues Neal Lawson
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A Broken Contract: Why Britain’s Democracy No Longer Works for You
Journalist and campaigner Gavin Esler on why Britain’s entire political and democratic system is now failing and what we can all now do about it
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Tougher Rules Demanded to Tackle ‘Fake Candidates’ After YouTuber Listed as Standing in 11 Different Seats at the Same Time
YouTuber Niko Omilana’s prank highlights how few checks are made on the real identities of those who stand for election
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Calls for Government to Go ‘Much Further’ as Voter ID Changes are put to MPs
Campaigners warn thousands of legitimate voters will still be at risk of being disenfranchised under the ‘discriminatory’ system
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X – Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front
Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion
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Leading Labour Mayor Calls on Keir Starmer to Review Westminster’s Warped Voting System
Andy Burnham turns up the heat on Keir Starmer over political reform
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Elections Watchdog Launches Push to Bring in ‘Missing Millions’ of Unregistered Voters Ahead of 2025 Elections
Electoral Commission’s £280k bid to boost electoral roll offers a hint of Labour’s reform plans
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MPs Launch Cross-Party Bid to Overhaul Westminster Elections
Exclusive: Cross-party MPs unite to campaign for ‘fair elections’
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‘Scrap Callous Photo ID Scheme’ Campaigners Demand as Report Reveals Scale of Voter Suppression
Three quarters of a million people didn’t vote because of the “continued failure of the voter ID regime”
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‘The Political System Needs Fundamental Reform – From Capping Party Donations to Scrapping Voter ID’
‘It is a scandal that, in so many constituencies, people did not really have a choice of MP – as the real choice lay with a party machine that can foist MPs upon them’
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Another Report Finds Voter ID Law Likely to Have Disenfranchised Hundreds of Thousands in UK General Election
Nearly half of those turned away on 4 July appear to be non-white, according to observers
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‘Invisible’ Reform Candidates Could Have Swung Election Results in These Seats
Despite the candidates having zero online presence, many still garnered thousands of votes and may have swung close elections
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Scale of Votes with ‘No Impact’ in General Election Revealed as Campaigners Demand Electoral Reform
Record ‘distorted’ election result raises question marks’ for new Government according to Make Votes Matter
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Reform UK Candidate Accused of Flouting Election Law with Illicit Campaign Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Police confirm they are investigating allegations of potential election rule breach by a Reform UK candidate.
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‘If It Looks Like the Law Was Broken, Police Investigations Must Follow’: Elections Watchdog Receives Flood of Complaints Over ‘Phantom’ Reform Party Candidates
There has been a major public response to Byline Times’ report of ‘super-shy’ Reform UK parliamentary candidates – exposing concerning legal loopholes and the limits of the role of Electoral Commission
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General Election 2024: Voter ID and Postal Vote Issues Risk Casting Shadow Over Polling Day
Nearly half of Brits incorrectly believe that a polling card can be used as ID when voting
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Postal Vote Chaos ‘Emblematic of Past 14 Years’ of Government, Says Brit Who Has Lost their Vote Due to Delays
One disenfranchised voter told Byline Times that it represented the ‘utter clusterf**k that is the sum of 14 years’ of Conservative rule
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Reform UK’s Invisible Candidates: Who Are They Hiding?
Absent from hustings, media interviews, and social media, why are Nigel Farage’s Reform champions quite so elusive?
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Tens of Thousands Expected to ‘Vote Swap’ as Brits Forced to Game the Voting System
Voters are about to hack First Past the Post on an epic scale
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Barriers to the Ballot: How Voter ID Marginalises Disabled People Who Feel It’s ‘Another Way Their Voice is Suppressed’
‘They have voted at every opportunity and have actively sought out and studied the various political parties, claims and policies. Once voter ID came to this country, they found the ID process a challenge’
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More Than 130 Reform Candidates Ignoring Electoral Commission Rules on Anonymous Donations
Candidates have raised tens of thousands for Nigel Farage’s party despite failing to explain how they will vet donors, amid claims the party doesn’t have ‘millionaire’ funders
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Former Green Councillor in Party Target Seat Threatens Legal Action Against Co-Leader Over Expulsion Amid Trans Rights Row
Then-councillor Jude English was suspended by the Greens shortly before the May elections, over transphobia allegations (she denies wrongdoing)
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Voters Say They Aren’t Hearing Enough About the Climate in This Election, Amid ‘Silence’ on Issue in BBC Debate
The final head to head debate between Starmer and Sunak didn’t have a single question on climate or nature.
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Dismay as Starmer Backs Westminster’s ‘Winner Takes All’ Voting System as Labour Eyes Big Majority
During his Labour leadership election, Starmer hinted at backing proportional representation. But he now appears to support continuing with Westminster’s First Past The Post voting system
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Veterans Won’t Be Able to Use Veterans’ ID Cards to Vote in General Election – Despite Rishi Sunak Claiming he is ‘Proud of Our Record Supporting’ Them After Skipping D-Day Event
A leaked memo by Veterans’ Affairs Minister Johnny Mercer revealed Rishi Sunak’s circle initially denied requests to allow the cards to be accepted over fears it would ‘open the floodgates’ to student ID cards
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‘It’s Far More Complicated Now Because of Voter ID’: Unprecedented Challenges Facing the Poll Workers Who Deliver Our Democracy
Matt Gallagher examines elections staffs’ repeated warnings of electoral ‘delivery failure’
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Overseas Voters Could Swing UK Election in Seats Around the Country – Latest Figures Revealed
Around a quarter of a million Brits living abroad could vote on 4 July, affecting results in areas they no longer live
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Nigel Farage Claims ‘Corruption’ in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to ‘Ballot Harvesting’
Nigel Farage echoes Trump supporters’ conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in 2020 and makes unevidenced claims of corruption in the UK postal voting system
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How Conservative MPs Became the New ‘Shy Tories’ – Attempting to Win Votes by Distancing Themselves From their Party
The ‘Shy Tory’ effect now extends beyond voters to Conservative incumbents as critics complain that voters shouldn’t need a ‘magnifying glass to work out’ who they are voting for
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Brits Living Overseas Register to Vote in Large Numbers After Government Change – But Non-British UK Residents Locked Out
This is the first general election in which every Brit living overseas can vote, but many non-British workers living in the UK feel deliberately excluded
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Anti-Conservative Tactical Voting Website for General Election Crashes Due to ‘Extremely High Demand’
The guide is designed to oust the Conservatives from Government – but smaller parties have questioned some of the recommendations
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Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has put Nigel Farage on her ‘Misleading’ Campaign Leaflets and Electoral Authorities say There’s Nothing They can do About it
The leaflets give voters the false impression that she has been endorsed by the Reform UK leader
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How Rishi Sunak ‘Changed the Rules’ to Keep the Conservative Party in Power
The Prime Minister accused Keir Starmer of wanting to “change the rules so they’re in power for a very long time”, despite the Conservatives making a long list of changes to elections designed to keep them in office
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Demand for Voting Overhaul as One in Six Commons Seats ‘Haven’t Changed Hands for a Century’
Over eight million voters live in ‘one-party fiefdoms’ as over 100 parliamentary seats have been held by one party for a century or more
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Prime Minister Told to ‘Defend the UK’s Democracy’ by Leading Security Body, Amid Russian Interference Warning
Rishi Sunak is being warned of Russian interference during this election, from the highest levels. But there is little time to act
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Veteran Blocked From Using Army ID to Vote ‘Was Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer’s Sergeant Major’ in Afghanistan
Adam Diver became embroiled in a row with the minister after Mercer branded a Tweet about him being denied a vote as “fake news from a fake bloke”
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Vast Majority of Those Turned Away Over Voter ID in Local Elections Were ‘Non-White’ According to Polling Station Observers
The figure has surged compared to last year’s local elections, raising concerns over discrimination, the UK’s leading election monitoring group has warned
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Stop the Student Votes: Leaked Memo Exposes the Real Purpose of Voter ID
The leaked memo reveals Downing Street feared letting veterans use their veteran IDs would “open the floodgates” to also making it easier for students to vote
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Conservatives’ Voting System Overhaul Turned Mayoral Elections into ‘Negative and Divisive’ Race, Says Green Candidate
Zoë Garbett on a tense London mayoral race, how the Greens plan to push Sadiq Khan, and how she got her seat
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Bouncers at the Ballot Box: Security Turned Away Voters In What Campaigners say is ‘Another Nail in the Coffin of Photo Voter ID’
Three people of colour were turned away from a polling station in Sheffield after a security guard checked their IDs on the door
