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Originally Posted by techguyone
this is (so far) the stupidest post I've seen in a long time.
Why?
wasn't the many months long lead up to it long enough?
Aren't these people already registered to vote... you know, for stuff like local elections, General ones etc.
Is it really that hard not to expect the 'under 40's' - bless them to manage to do that all by themselves without the helping hand of 'we'll do it for you automatically'
If people care enough about their future or politics, they need to get up off their ass and onto their hind legs and do something about it - all by themselves...
We don't (quite yet) live in an amazing automagical word for Gen Snowflake.
Nor should we, people need to engage because they care, if they don't then too bad for the little darlings - they have a voice,they just need to use it.
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This would work better had a whole load of them not be kicked off the register due to the change in how registering works.
Voting is not a right that should be earned. It's a fundamental right in a democracy and the barriers to access should be as low as possible. I agree with
TheDaddy that registration should be automatic, although not just for under-40s but everyone. I am not entirely sure why that isn't the case but it might be because people move around in a way the government can't check? Not sure.
Besides a deadline is the deadline but if you set it at for 11:59pm then that is when it should end. Not 10pm. Yes it's irresponsible to leave it so late but that laziness should not be punished by disenfranchisement and the fundamental fact here is that they were not late, they attempted to register ahead of the deadline.
The only sympathy I have with Leave's argument on this is that two days is a bit much for 2 hours of missed registration.
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Anyway I don't think this will change that much. The majority of registrations will be re-registrations from people already on the electoral roll making sure they are.