I tried to take myself off it using the webpage, I couldnt remove myself only change my name.
Dont see the point of being on it, I wont be voting ever again!
Dont see the point of being on it, I wont be voting ever again!
Ireland is close, and would probably suffice.
I've a vague memory of it being 7 years, but on checking it seems to be 15.
Afaik that is not correct. It is a criminal offence to refuse to complete the registration form or to give false information. But if you're not asked ro register then no offence is committed.
Not being on the electoral register is a huge pain too. It affects your credit quite significantly.
[1] https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500328/voting/6470/regist...
I dont care, I closed my bank accounts because I dont like the way the banks share data with credit agencies. One of the reasons why I stopped using crypto.
Privacy is massively undervalued. :)
You can argue that it sucks, and I'd partly agree, but that is how society works right now.
Privacy is undervalued, I agree. But I also like having a roof over my head and a way for my employer to give me money each month.
Life is intelligent slavery now, more psychological than physical, and way more stealth than most people realise.
Anyway don't worry about me you have yours and your loved ones backs to watch and your grown up toys to worry about. Nothing has changed in thousands of years.
The UK down plays its surveillance as its best to not wake the population up plus its a stealth form on entrapment, illegal in the UK and it also provides a facility for deniable ops like murders.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/6/section/5/enacte...
Maintenance of registers: invitations to register in Great Britain
(1)A registration officer in Great Britain must give a person an invitation to apply for registration in a register maintained by the officer if—
(a)the officer is aware of the person’s name and address,
(b)the person is not registered in the register, and
(c)the officer has reason to believe that the person may be entitled to be registered in the register.
The legislative text (it's an amending regulation—think a diff—but the underlying statute hasn't been updated on Legislation.gov.uk yet) is here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/en/uksi/2013/3198/regulation/...
The Electoral Commission's guidance - https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/running-electoral-reg...
I can't find any reports of people actually receiving the penalty. It'd certainly be useful if the Electoral Commission collected these statistics, but they don't. It seems fairly rare, and it's likely to be one of those things that's there to encourage people to register to vote rather than something to be actively enforced.
I'd also note that given there is a requirement for an in-person home visit to encourage registration before service a formal notice, it's pretty likely that COVID restrictions and guidance meant quite a lot of the home visits didn't happen over the last few years.