MPs are apparently shocked at the problems with the forthcoming rules on registering to vote. These are soon to be changed so that the register is no longer filled in by one person per household, but by each individual personally. The effect is likely to massively reduce the number of people on the register. For areas like Brent, I suspect that as much as half the population might cease to register. The question is: at what point does the proportion become so high that the election is no longer democratic?
UPDATE:
Brent is particularly affected by registration problems because we have a highly transient population with lots of ethnic diversity (and therefore language probelms).
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Why would this cause a problem in Brent?
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