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My comments are not pro or con leave, the ability to vote and register are well established, if people choose to leave til the 11th hour to do this and something awful happens, too bad.
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Well no, not 'too bad'. They arrived before the end of the deadline and were not able to register to vote. I was already registered and would have registered had I not been (in fact, I have already voted!) but there shouldn't be a punishment for leaving it a bit close as long as you're ahead of the deadline.
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Let's be clear here, It's not like the whole populace has had 2 days only to register - and it's hardly like the Referendum process has been done in secret.
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No but not everyone is political aware or really knows what is happening. We might find that to understand but that's the reality of it and voting is a universal entitlement irrespective of a citizen's knowledge of the political process. The first debate on terrestrial television was on that evening and at the end the host on ITV told people they had two hours to register. That may well have caused the spike.
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Barriers to access? hardly. I mean COME ON why are you bending over backwards to make excuses for people. There has not been an unreasonable time to register, and the whole process to register changed last year was it? Man what's wrong with people today, if we make things much easier for everyone , we might as well breathe in and out for them, so they don't need to.
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No but these people arrived ahead of the deadline and were unable to register. The rule was that if you registered before 11:59pm on Tuesday you would be entitled to vote. They met their requirement but the government broke the deal. So extending it isn't out of line.
I agree it's bad planning but they shouldn't lose their right to vote over it if they arrived in time.
This is like when people were turned away at the polls for arriving before 10pm because the queues meant they wouldn't actually be in the booth by 10pm. They arrived in time to vote, let them vote.