Steve on Hastings: Electoral Register

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Monday, 17 June 2024

Register to Vote: 30 hours left!

A final reminder that you don't need to take your poll card with you to the polling station when you vote on the 4th of July, when you help decide who wins at the General Election. However, you do need to take photo ID . If you turn up at the polling station without photo ID, you will not be allowed to vote, so get it now if you don't already have an acceptable method of ID, and don't want to lose your right to vote.

Acceptable photo ID includes an original (not photocopied) Passport, Driving Licence, Older or Disabled Persons' Bus Pass, Freedom Pass, other Concessionary Travel Cards and SmartPasses, PASS Card, and EEA ID cards. For full details of acceptable photo ID go to the Electoral Commission website.

If you don't have any photo ID that qualifies, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate, providing you are on the Electoral Register, at the Government website.

If you want your name to be added to the Electoral Register, go to the Government website, where you can register online, or, again, lose the right to vote. You have until 11.59pm on the 18th of June 2024 to register, but I would suggest registering as soon as possible, remember, this is the big election to decide who will run the country for the next 5 years!

The policy regarding photo ID was introduced last year, if you want further details, and of how it went for elections last year and by-elections, go to this Parliamentary Research Briefing.

For further details go to the Electoral Commission website. 👍

Don't lose your right to vote and don't forget people lost their lives fighting for your rights!

As I've said before, 2 elections in one year, what a waste of taxpayers' money! The Government should have had the General Election on the same day as the local elections, thus just have the one day's costs and not twice in one year. Also, it would have been interesting to see the results of local councils with a larger turnout than usual, oh well, Democracy...😒

Friday, 31 May 2024

Register to Vote if not already on Electoral Register!

Another reminder that you don't need to take your poll card with you to the polling station when you vote on the 4th of July 2024, that day being the date of the General Election. However, you now do need to take photo ID . If you turn up at the polling station without photo ID, you will not be allowed to vote, so get it now if you don't already have an acceptable method of ID, and don't want to lose your right to vote.

If you don't have any photo ID that qualifies, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate, providing you are on the Electoral Register, at the Government website.

If you want your name to be added to the Electoral Register, go to the Government website, where you can register online, or, again, lose the right to vote. You have until 11.59pm on the 18th of June 2024 to register, but I would suggest registering as soon as possible, this is a big election to decide who will run the country for the next 5 years!

The policy regarding photo ID was introduced last year, if you want further details, and of how it went for elections last year and by-elections, go to this Parliamentary Research Briefing.

For further details go to the Electoral Commission website. 👍

Don't lose your right to vote and don't forget people lost their lives fighting for your rights!

Sunday, 2 April 2023

Photo ID required to vote from the 4th of May 2023!

Please remember that from the 4th of May 2023 you will need photo ID to vote in elections (gov.uk). If you do not have one of the approved photo IDs copied below (list obtained from that website), or the photograph on your ID no longer looks like you, or it doesn't have your name the same as detailed on the Electoral Register, then you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate at the website.

You will need one of the following types of photo ID to vote:

a UK or Northern Ireland photocard driving licence (full or provisional)
a driving licence issued by the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands
a UK passport
a passport issued by the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or a Commonwealth country
a PASS card (National Proof of Age Standards Scheme)
a Blue Badge
a biometric residence permit (BRP)
a Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)
a national identity card issued by the EU, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein
a Northern Ireland Electoral Identity Card
a Voter Authority Certificate
an Anonymous Elector’s Document

You can also use one of the following travel passes as photo ID when you vote:

an older person’s bus pass
a disabled person’s bus pass
an Oyster 60+ card
a Freedom Pass
a Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC)
a 60 and Over Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
a Disabled Person’s Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
a Northern Ireland concessionary travel pass

Please do not lose the right to vote folks! 👌

Friday, 12 March 2021

Elections Looming...

Less than 2 months away, on Thursday the 6th of May 2021 to be exact, there will be Local Elections for Hastings Borough Council, East Sussex County Council and for the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, including for those Hastings ward elections postponed last year (HBC website).

If you are not already on the Electoral Register, you can register online at the Government website. Registering online only takes about 5 minutes, and remember, if you are not on the register you cannot vote, and you may be fined!*

The website also gives advice about registering, how you may complete a paper form, and I suggest, if you don't want everyone in the world to be able to see your details, you make sure you are not on the Open Register, my free advice, I thank you!

*Explained in older blog.

Monday, 25 November 2019

Urgent! Register to vote by tomorrow night.

As I suggested in my blog of 25th of October, a General Election was imminent, well we know now it is to be held on Thursday the 12th of December 2019... And, you have until before midnight tomorrow (11.59pm/23.59 hours, or if you want a postal vote, it needs to be before 5pm/17.00 hours), Tuesday the 26th of November, to register (Government website). Registering online "usually takes about 5 minutes" only, and remember, if you are not on the register you cannot vote, and you may be fined!*

If you want/need to register to vote please do hurry to the website and register.

* Explained in older blog

Friday, 25 October 2019

On the Electoral Register?

Unless you've been hiding in Iceland or somewhere you are probably well aware that a General Election in December is a very real possibility! So, if you are not already on the Electoral Register have a look at the Hastings Borough Council website for advice, or just go straight to the Government website and register online, if you're not on the Electoral Register, you can't vote, and you could be fined!

Friday, 7 April 2017

Register to vote, or...

There's voting for East Sussex County Council councillors on the 4th of May... if you're not already on the register to vote, do register, eg online, see Government website; then exercise your right to vote, similarly, if you are on the electoral register, do vote!

Friday, 12 August 2016

Voter Registration, yet again!

I presume many of us have received a letter like this, threatening us with a £1,000 fine if we don't complete and return/register online/whatever! Just a year after 1,000,000 people were lost from the electoral register for the general election last year, following the 2014 Government decision that everyone should be responsible, as individuals, to have their names added to the register...

Make your minds up!

Steve on Hastings