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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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Be very careful what you wish for. I think you'll get your wish soon. I believe there will come a day and it's not too far away when we will all be chipped at birth and all your information will be on that chip. Much as I disagree with that concept it's going to happen like it or not. Then it doesn't matter if you move around as things like voting registration would be programmed into that chip. They already tag babies now so the next step is the chip. They do it with pets already.