Millions are missing from the UK’s electoral registers

‘A recent issue of the Guardian led with news that 800,000 people have dropped off the electoral register following changes to the way that citizens register to vote. If that figure is accurate, that’s 800,000 people without a voice in a year with crucial elections in Scotland, Wales and London – as well as a once-in-a-generation EU referendum.

This is just the tip of an iceberg, however. An Electoral Commission report in 2014 estimated that 7.5 million names were missing from the registers. That’s equivalent to 12% of the population and represents 25% of people who voted in the 2015 General Election. Imagine this many people were missing from NHS databases; it’d be a national emergency.’

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