Let Us Vote: New campaign launched to give everyone living in UK the right to vote in elections
04/04/2019
MPs say existing laws that stop 10 million people voting should 'shame us as a society'.
Hundreds of thousands of us marched. Millions of us signed the petition to revoke Art50. Tens of millions of us will vote Remain in the EU election. / Remain voters will coordinate the Remain vote ourselves. We will pick a party in every area, get behind their campaign and make our vote count.
The number of remain parties in the EU elections means there is a clear and present danger that the remain vote will be split, leading to more Brexiteer MEPs being elected. Smart remain voters need to think tactically and focus on the leading remain party in their region.
Want to stop Nigel Farage storming the European elections? Then vote tactically - Gina Miller
09/05/2019
The remain vote may split, but we can still make our votes count and halt the Brexit party in its tracks.
European elections 2019: how to vote in MEP polls, sample ballot and what your choice means
09/05/2019
Voting in the European elections differs to voting at a general election. / The polls, which take place in Britain on 23 May and elect MEPs to the European Parliament, uses the d’Hondt system of proportional representation for voters in England, Scotland and Wales.
The site is based on latest polling data and is 'not party political', its founders said. / A new website targeted at Remain voters has been launched by data scientists in a bid to help tactical voting against the Brexit Party.
European elections: Millions of EU citizens fear being turned away from polling booths due to red tape
21/05/2019
Government accused of failing to make clear an additional form must be filled in - just two days before voting. / Millions of EU citizens are demanding urgent action to stop them being turned away from polling booths at the European elections because of red tape.
Two-step process for European elections ‘mishandled’ by authorities, says the3million. / Campaigners for non-British or Irish EU citizens have made a formal complaint to the Electoral Commission amid fears many of them will be unable to vote in the UK in this Thursday’s elections for the European parliament.
Every election is determined by those who show up. / No matter how you vote, it’s important that young people turn out in this year’s European Elections. Find out who’s standing in your local area.
The BBC has been contacted by British expats from across the world who say their postal voting forms have arrived late, or not at all.
European elections: Hundreds of EU citizens 'turned away from polling stations and denied vote'
23/05/2019
'At the polling station my British husband gets the ballot while I am simply told: "Vote in your own country!"' / Hundreds of EU citizens hoping to cast their ballots in the European elections have reported being turned away from polling stations.
'Thousands' of British citizens living abroad denied vote in EU elections due to administrative errors
23/05/2019
Thousands of British nationals living abroad have been deprived of their votes in today’s elections due to administrative errors by UK authorities, according to widespread reports.
Voters described turning up to take part in the European parliamentary elections only to find their name had been crossed out 'in red pen'.
EU citizens living in the UK have told of their anger after they were unable to vote in the European elections.
Thousands of angry voters posted on Twitter using the #DeniedMyVote hashtag to report they had been turned away from polling stations, despite believing they had registered to take part.
EU citizen votes - Call to investigate claims of EU voters being denied their right to vote (Scottish Government)
24/05/2019
Constitutional Relations Secretary Michael Russell has called for an investigation into reports that EU citizens were unable to vote in the EU Parliament elections.
At least three local councils across England and Wales have admitted that they ran out of time to print and send postal ballots for the European elections to some overseas voters, leaving them effectively disenfranchised.
Brexit has left EU citizens ostracised and anxious – and now it’s even taken away their right to vote
24/05/2019
I never thought “voter suppression” would be a phrase that I'd ever associate with British politics. Unfortunately, the events witnessed on European Election polling day, which left registered European citizens unable to vote, leave me struggling to find the adequate words to describe how much of a mess it was.
Campaign groups prepare legal challenge following ‘systemic denial’ of suffrage. / The government is facing the prospect of being sued by campaigners for EU citizens in the UK and British nationals abroad who were denied a vote in the European parliament elections.
Data shows only one in 10 EU citizens able to vote in some parts of Britain. / The government has been accused of “shocking complacency” over the European election voting rights controversy as new data revealed that as few as one in 10 EU citizens were able to cast their vote in some areas of Britain.
A Brexit Party MEP has tweeted a video of himself trying to use EU Parliament voting machines and appearing to claim that they are rigged. / The video tweeted by Lance Forman, the Brexit Party MEP for London, shows him attempting to press the 'no' button on a voting machine.
200,000 people register to vote in 72 hours
05/09/2019
Nearly 200,000 people have applied to register to vote in just 72 hours, and more than half of them are under 35.
EU citizens living in the UK can vote in local elections, but not in general elections. Each referendum has its own eligibility rules, which can exclude EU citizens. Yet these votes are making decisions that are very relevant to EU citizens.
As parliament goes through the process of calling a December election, MPs will also vote on an amendment that would extend the franchise to EU citizens.
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