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Elections and Politics - United Kingdom
Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to elections and politics in the United Kingdom.
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- Elections and politics - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to elections and politics in the United Kingdom.
Added: 21 December 2005
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- David Cameron gets 100,000 Twitter followers days after starting account
- Prime minister defies bookmakers' expectations by reaching target after sending first tweet at the weekend, Press Association, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 October 2012. "Cameron once said that he would steer clear of the site, which allows users to send out messages in 140 characters or fewer, famously saying that he was worried that "too many tweets make a twat"..."
Added: 10 October 2012;
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- Individual Electoral Registration and Electoral Administration - Report
- Political and Constitutional Reform Committee - Tenth Report. UK Parliament. "Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 27 October 2011..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- MPs may be banned from Twitter in the chamber
- By Matthew D'Arcy. PublicService.co.uk, 10 October 2011. "Use of Twitter during debates in the House of Commons could become restricted or even banned if two Conservative MPs succeed in amending proposals on the use of hand-held technology in the chamber..."
Added: 13 October 2011;
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- Boundary Commission defends release of pdfs of new constituency boundaries
- Quango responds to criticism about publishing data of proposed Parliamentary constituencies as hundreds of pdf maps, by Ben Whitelaw. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 14 September 2011. "The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) has defended its decision to release more than 500 pdf maps of proposed Parliamentary constituencies, stating that they believe they provided "an appropriate level of detail"..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- MPs still failing to use Twitter
- Public-Service.co.UK, 18 August 2011. "The majority of MPs are still not embracing social networks, despite the growing popularity of social media as a way to communicate and as a means for public authorities to engage with the public. Tweetminster today tweeted that 280 MPs were now on Twitter, leaving more than half of 646 MPs in Westminster still not on the social network..."
Added: 22 August 2011;
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- Government drops plan for elector database
- Claims that Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors would not provide value for money, by Mark Say. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 19 July 2011. "The government has abandoned the plan to create a Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors (Core) following an assessment that it would not be cost-effective..."
Added: 21 July 2011;
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- Individual Electoral Registration - in pdf format (1098kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Presented to Parliament by the Deputy Prime Minister by Command of Her Majesty, June 2011. Cm 8108. "... The electoral register is a key building block for our democracy, as it provides the fundamental record of those people entitled to vote at the various elections in the UK. The current system for registering to vote has been in operation since the early part of the twentieth century. However, the system relies on trust that those who register to vote are indeed eligible. In the past decade there have been abuses of this system which have shaken the public's confidence in the security of our elections. In the last Parliament legislation was passed to move to a system of Individual Electoral Registration, requiring each elector to register to vote individually, rather than by household as happens at the moment, and for each elector to provide personal identifiers which will allow each person’s application to be verified before they are added to the register. This White Paper sets out how we plan to accelerate the implementation of Individual Electoral Registration in line with the Coalition Agreement and do so in a way that will modernise the electoral registration system so eligible people can register themselves more easily and in many different ways. This will reduce fraud and help to make the registration system more accessible to under-represented groups and to those with special requirements, including disabled people..."
Added: 6 July 2011;
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- Data matching to support electoral registration
- Government to test cross-checking of databases to provide more complete and accurate electoral registers. by Mark Say. Guardian Professional, Friday 1 July 2011. "A series of data matching pilots are to be run as part of a planned move towards individual registrations for elections, according to a new document from the Cabinet Office..."
Added: 6 July 2011;
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- Hansard stalls on journey to Cloud
- Public Technology, 22 December 2010. "Press reports suggest that an attempt to move away from proprietary technology to free up reporting of Parliamentary business by going to the Cloud has stalled..."
Added: 23 December 2010;
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- Clegg trials electoral 'innovation'
- Publicservice.co.uk, Wednesday, October 27, 2010. "Government is piloting the cross referencing of public databases in an attempt to get more people onto the electoral register, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has confirmed..."
Added: 28 October 2010;
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- Databases to identify non-voters
- PublicService.co.uk, Tuesday, September 7, 2010. "Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that public sector databases could be used to find people not on the electoral register..."
Added: 8 September 2010;
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- Lord Puttnam: Parliament needs to catch up with the YouTube generation
- Public Technology, 6 July 2010. "Texting from the House of Lords no longer gets you sent to the Tower of London, but a ban on putting House of Commons clips on YouTube suggests that Parliament is still out of touch with the modern digital world..."
Added: 8 July 2010;
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- New Technology Will Make Election Voting More Efficient
- Source: EPSRC. eGov Monitor, Friday, 28 May, 2010. "Did you stay up all night to hear your local result during the recent election? Time-consuming manual vote-counts and ballot boxes could soon be consigned to the history books, thanks to innovative new secure voting technology... Combining speed with total vote-counting accuracy, the system is unique because it will integrate state-of-the-art optical scanning, data processing and encryption with the tried-and-tested process of manually writing on a ballot paper..."
Added: 1 June 2010;
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- Labour's View: The Word-of-Mouth Election
- By Mark Hanson, Search Engine Watch, May 11, 2010. "... There's been much excitable debate over here about whether this was the Internet election. We've always said that this is an over-simplification. Society has changed and voters want to interact with politicians and each other in completely different ways. The Internet is part of that, but only as a facilitator. Our choice was to use the Web to motivate and mobilise our supporters and activists. This was an important core strategic decision we made two years ago..."
Added: 11 May 2010;
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- Labour Mostly Absent on Social Sites on U.K. Election Day
- By Jack Marshall, ClickZ, May 6, 2010. "As the U.K. polling stations near closing time up and down the country today, parties and candidates have been making their final efforts to influence voters. While The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties are attempting to exploit the followings they have accumulated over the past few weeks on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the Labour Party appears to have all but abandoned its social media accounts for the day..."
Added: 10 May 2010;
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