The cross-party panel also called for changes to the new compulsory voter ID requirement ahead of the general election.
A “failing” electoral registration system risks disenfranchising eight million voters at the next election and presents a threat to the rights of the British electorate, MPs have warned.
Recent changes such as voter ID have been tacked onto a Victorian era system which is failing voters, political parties, and election officials Anyone without an acceptable form of ID will be able to apply to their local council for a special certificate. The MPs’ report said the elections watchdog had calculated that potentially as many as eight million people were not correctly registered at their current address and people may be registered twice inadvertently.
“In the year of a general election, this is a damning indictment of the UK’s electoral registration arrangements and a threat to the rights of British voters. Committee chairman Clive Betts said voters risked being ‘disenfranchised’ by the current electoral registration systemThe committee’s report recognises that certain groups, such as young people, renters, ethnic minorities and those in lower socio-economic groups were significantly less likely to be registered to vote.
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