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Tell the Ministry of Justice what the real barriers to voting are

The Government is consulting on whether to move to weekend voting, as a way of increasing turnout.  We urgently need your help in responding to this consultation, and making the case for First-Past-the-Post being a big barrier to voting.  Point out that it doesn't matter which day of the week an election is held on, as if your vote doesn't stand much of a chance of counting there may be little incentive to actually vote at all.  Handily, there is a open-ended final question on the consultation where we can make these, and other electoral reform related, arguments.  We've got it all set up on our website, so it should only take you a minute or two to respond and be part of this campaign. Or for a paper copy, download and print off the action sheet here.

 

Or download a copy of the action sheet, which includes the form to fill in.

The challenge:
The Government received less a thousand separate responses in total to all their past Governance of Britain consultations (war powers, attorney general, flag flying, managing protest around Parliament). About 500 of these were just on managing protest around Parliament, mainly submitted by members of the public.  Hence our target is to make an impression - by getting close to that figure, and ideally beating it.  And, as this is an official consultation, all the responses get logged, summarised and reported back - within Government and publicly.  

So please do your part to help us achive this goal and tell the MoJ that First-Past-the-Post is the real barrier to voting.  And remember, the consultation closes 26 September, so responses are needed by then. 

Posted: 12/09/08

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