Sentences with phrase «of electoral registers»

The cut in the number of parliamentary seats will fall disproportionately on urban constituencies in England and Wales — Labour's heartland — while Individual Electoral Registration will aggravate the social bias of the electoral registers.

Stuart Wilks - Heeg undertook a Research Placement Fellowship at the UK Electoral Commission from 2009 - 10 examining the state of the electoral registers in Britain.

Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle and Brighton and Hove have all seen a reduction in the size of the electoral register of over 15,000, well over ten per cent of the existing electorate.

Meanwhile the Electoral Commission's report reminds us of the special measures that were taken to enfranchise 16 and 17 year olds, including not least not making a version of the electoral register that contained their names generally available.

This is a party, after all that now wants to force through an undemocratic Boundary Review based on an out - of - date version of the electoral register with nearly two million voters missing.

When you arrive at the polling station, there will be people sitting at a desk with a copy of the electoral register.

He wants a meeting on legislation for increasing democratic participation in deprived communities, a look at the state of the electoral register and an assessment of prejudice against members of his party in Westminster.

Absence of the electoral register, 2.

This release is therefore to serve as a warning and caution to Hon Benito and his cohorts that tomorrow 8th May being the last day, no such acts of criminality will be entertained within the constituency and we are on guard to vehemently protect the credibility of the electoral register by any means necessary.

For example, until «rolling registration» was introduced in the United Kingdom, there was no possibility of the electoral register being updated during its currency, or even amending genuine mistakes after a certain cut off date.

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Nobody at school mentioned the electoral register or the channels of communication, let alone how I could affect unemployment, housing, welfare or the curriculum by casting a vote.

I once asked a group of 25 students in a government and politics class in Cambridge if they knew what the electoral register was.

And, don't forget, a significant number of younger Britons have also fallen off the electoral register in recent months (hence Nicky Morgan's recent intervention to try and ensure that those young voters who are still on the register turn out.)

Illustrating the above, most of the people leading this electoral discourse have neither registered for nor collected their Permanent Voters Card (PVC).

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She ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.

Many prisoners are homeless and / or not on the electoral register and because of over-crowding they are transfered from prison to prison on a regular basis often far from their the area where their home is.

Despite introducing a more flexible electoral registration system, Labour failed to stem the collapse in the numbers of voters who are missing from registers.

The main groups of people missing from electoral registers are be found amongst the poor, the young, the rootless, ethnic minorities and those avoiding debt collectors.

Given the potentials the card reader has for disinfecting the process with the scrutiny of authentication of the voter register, all those who stand for genuine electoral reform have no choice but to improve the enabling policy ambiance for supporting the card reader by ensuring judicial clarity which supports its use.

If a process is meant to improve the integrity of the electoral process, judgments that shoot it down can not advance the cause of our development; it means we have chosen a path of regression to the era where elections are decided by unsavory self - help in bloating the voter register with strange names on the part of politicians.

This is what the introduction of the card reader has brought to our electoral system and we should acknowledge that the card reader has brought a tremedous resurgence of hope and fidelity unequaled in our quest to give meaning and purpose to the voter register.

But as senior politicians cast their votes, others were turned away from voting in the north London borough of Barnet after the wrong electoral register lists were printed for polling stations.

Ghana currently has no electoral laws to handle the situation, and the government communique addressing the voter register admits that «Ghana should emulate the example of Kenya by codifying a set of electoral laws which adequately deter electoral fraud.»

Mr Mac - Manu said the public is not even aware of the work being executed by a «secret» consultant in cleaning the register and noted that any review of the electoral roll by a consultant must be made public with contributions from political parties.

«Early indicators suggest that hundreds of thousands of people have gone missing from the electoral register,» shadow constitutional affairs minister Stephen Twigg said.

About 40,000 of the 183,000 registered supporters are said to have been barred from voting in the contest, either because their cheques for # 25 bounced, they are not on the electoral roll, or because evidence has emerged of support for other parties.

Tens of thousands of students are disappearing from the electoral register as the 2015 general election approaches.

Party head office has confirmed that 17 of these had been identified by an audit of membership carried out in recent months as not being on the electoral register and would not be allowed to vote unless they have a reasonable explanation.

A person who is qualified to be registered as an elector of any electoral district and who is in New Zealand must apply to the Electoral Commission for registration as an elector --

the Electoral Commission must, if satisfied that the person is qualified to be registered, enter the name of the person on the electoral roll; and

the total number of persons registered as electors of the Maori electoral districts as at the close of that last day; and

A person who is qualified to be registered as an elector of any electoral district and who is outside New Zealand may apply at any time to the Electoral Commission for registration as an elector.

This section applies if, as a result of a comparison carried out under section 263A, the Electoral Commission believes that a person who has applied to be (but is not yet) registered as an elector of an electoral district is --

All of which is music to the ears of a Tory press delighting in Labour's current woes to the extent that one newspaper, the Daily Telegraph to be precise, ran a «joke» feature which encouraged its readers to become registered supporters of the Labour party: so that they could the vote to ensure Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader and Labour is «consigned to electoral oblivion».

Where an application for registration as an elector has been received before the issue of a writ and it has not been possible for the Electoral Commission to ascertain, at the time of the issue of the writ, whether the applicant is currently registered as an elector of another electoral district, the Electoral Commission must, subject to subsection (4), include the name of the applicant on any main, supplementary, or composite roll printed as at writ day.

The NPP, according to Nana Akufo - Addo, was asking for a new voters» register because «it will strengthen the credibility of the electoral system and therefore make the outcome of any electoral outcome easy for people to accept.

On Thursday, May 5, the Supreme Court ordered the Electoral Commission to delete from the electoral roll names of persons who have not established qualification to be on the register as well as deceased persons and minors.ghanapoliticsonkine.com

He assured all NPP members and sympathisers, and the majority of Ghanaians and stakeholders in Ghana's electoral process, who are desirous of a new voters» register ahead of the 2016 election, that, «we want the world to know that no amount of intimidation is going to stop those of us asking for a new register to go about our peaceful advocacy for a new register.»

The Electoral Commission says names of persons who registered with National Health Insurance cards will not be deleted from the electoral roll.

According to him, the position of the Electoral Commission on the preparation of a credible voters register for the elections, which is just six months away, appears unsatisfactory in view of what it calls the lackadaisical posture by the Commission towards the electoral process.

Lawyer Nimako Marfo is requesting the EC to make public information on when the name of Dr. Rawlings was entered in Ghana's electoral roll if indeed she is a registered voter.

The association cautioned against «any hasty, poorly - informed and premature decisions of the EC that could compromise the search for an enduring solution that could advance national interest», adding that: ``... a trustworthy voters» register and effective monitoring of electoral activities underlie public trust confidence in election results».

The Committee also wants the party to take steps to restore the integrity of the biometric register of the party and the expanded electoral college» which currently gives the ordinary members of the party to vote in the party's primaries.

Among the recommendations by the committee after six (6) months of work were for the NDC to embark on a «healing tour» across the country, restore the integrity of the party's biometric register and expand the party's electoral college.

The Supreme Court will today [Thursday], June 30 2016, hear the suit in which former People's National Convention (PNC) Youth Organizer, Abu Ramadan, is asking it to compel the Electoral Commission, to delete names of voters on the register, who got onto the electoral roll through the use of the National Health Insurance Scheme card as a proof of Ghanaian...

The James - Clarke survey suggests that the electoral register needs attention: they found that over two thirds of polling stations turned away at least one citizen from voting in the 2015 election because their name was not on the electoral register.

A requirement that many individuals sign up anew to the electoral register is widely expected to lead to a drop in the number of lower - income voters in multiple - occupancy and rented accommodation — especially students and immigrants — on the rolls.

If it takes place after millions of people are removed from the electoral register we could see the biggest transfer of parliamentary representation and political power from urban to rural areas for more than a century.

Primaries are of two kinds — open (whereby anyone on the electoral register can have a vote to selecta Labour party candidate), and closed (whereby only party members or supporters can have a vote).