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Originally Posted by Big Brian
Those who wanted to register should have done so long ago if it meant that much to them. I'm sorry but, as you say a deadline is a deadline and that's that. They knew the deadline and have had plenty of time to register to vote. It's their own fault if they leave it till the 11th hour as anyone with half a brain would know that super demand on a website is bound to cause it to crash.
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I agree mostly but if you tell people you have to register by midnight and it goes down at 10pm then if feasible you should extend it. If they can't do it because of legal or practical reasons then I don't have much sympathy for those who failed to register but if it's trivial to keep it open for an extra day then really whats the harm? Frankly if it possible to keep it open an extra day then they should have do so from the beginning, allowing people to register for as long as possible.
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I suspect both campaigns would approve anyway.
Still even if they don't an impressive 500,000 additional people registered to vote yesterday!
https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote
It's applications so not all of them will be valid and some will be re-registrations from people making sure but still very good.