Local Government Reform

In the first article of the ‘Merger, He Wrote’ series, Steve Brooks director of the Electoral Reform Society Cymru reflects on the Welsh Government’s new white paper on local democracy.

So many of the issues he identifies could be improved by the introduction of STV.

Individual Registration

The Electoral Reform Society today (10 June 2014) highlights

The introduction of online registration is part of the launch of Individual Electoral Registration (IER).  This is an important reform that assigns our Victorian household registration system to the dustbin of history.

They say:

“If the transition to the new system is not managed well, and resources are not targeted at those most likely not to register, then millions of citizens will go missing from our democracy.”

But