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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Rising to the election challenge
By David Buckle | 14 April 2015
This year's set of elections are the most complex ever, with parish, district and parliamentary s...
ELECTIONS
Ukip to field 'record' number of council candidates
By Dan Peters | 13 April 2015
Ukip will mobilise a record 5,000 candidates in 278 local council elections next month, leader Ni...
WHITEHALL
Warning over electoral roll system problems
By Dan Peters | 31 March 2015
Problems with the individual electoral registration verification service could affect the conduct...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Election test
By Paul Lankester | 30 March 2015
This premise that local government has improved electoral management will be tested on 7 May and ...
LEGISLATION
Postal vote reminder branded 'needless'
By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015
Returning officers are being forced to write more than 100,000 letters containing postal voting i...
WHITEHALL
IT problems mean IER switchover is delayed
By Jonathan Werran | 03 March 2015
A new software glitch afflicting the switchover to Individual Electoral Registration means voting...
ELECTIONS
Voting chaos won't be repeated in May, Electoral Commission chair vows
By Jonathan Werran | 03 March 2015
Chaotic scenes involving queuing voters locked out of polling booths which marred the 2010 genera...
ENVIRONMENT
Welsh Assembly given incentive to devolve income tax
By Jonathan Werran | 27 February 2015
Prime minister David Cameron has hailed today’s St David’s Day agreement as ‘one of the biggest t...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Registration headache as IER isolates thousands of voters
By Jonathan Werran | 24 February 2015
Voting watchdogs have come under pressure this week after it emerged there were 920,000 fewer ent...
ELECTIONS
Call to give ejected politicians more support
By Michael Burton | 04 February 2015
Political parties and the Local Government Association (LGA) are being urged to give greater coun...
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