Government backtracks on new voter registration rules
While supporting the introduction of individual elector registration and playing a key role in persuading the government to introduce it in the first place, Unlock Democracy has grave concerns regarding the government's plans to introduce it - in particular its plans to create a legal right to "opt out" of registering to vote entirely. Following pressure, the government has now announced plans to go back on this decision, although more work still needs to be done to ensure they drop their plans for an opt out completely.