With so much talk of an early election, I wonder whether anyone in Parliament is thinking about the practical and legal difficulties of having an election on 12 December, when the new register comes into force on 1 December?
This will be hard for the political parties who would have to spend most of the campaign with the old register before suddenly switching to the new one. There will be a similar problem for returning officers sending out polling cards in November, only to find that some of the people given them will have dropped off the register, some will have come on and everyone polling numbers will have changed on polling day. People may even be sent a notice to vote only to be turned away when they get there. There will be similar issues around the dispatch of postal votes and proxy votes. This will certainly cause confusion and possibly legal problems.
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