Last week in Parliament, Unlock Democracy launched a report and call for party leaders to pledge to introduce automatic voter registration in the UK. With 8 million people missing or not correctly registered, voter registration reform is vital to enabling many citizens to vote. The missing millions are disproportionately the young and mobile - with…Read more Register Every Voter in the UK
International Electoral Awards: Elections During Emergencies and Crises Book Project Wins
It was a great honor to have received an International Electoral Award at the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies Symposium and Awards Ceremony. A team of Erik Asplund, Alistair Clark, Holly Ann Garnett were awarded the International Institutional Engagement Award. It was for our ESRC funded project on the impact of covid-19 on electoral integrity. We ran the project live…Read more International Electoral Awards: Elections During Emergencies and Crises Book Project Wins
The Electoral Tribunal of Mexico’s International Forum
The Electoral Tribunal of Mexico held an 'International Forum on Electoral Justice and Electoral Integrity', 30-31 October 2023. I was honoured to have been able to present research on global patterns of election quality and electoral justice on the keynote panel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylGRvZ8J2No
The EIP ECPR Workshop in Prague in Review
The Electoral Integrity Project hosted an workshop on ‘New Developments in Electoral Integrity Research’ at the ECPR General Conference in Prague, September 2023. The workshop was co-convened by Leontine Loeber, Holly Ann Garnett and Toby James. Holly Ann Garnett and Toby James introduced a proposed new framework for evaluating electoral integrity and reconfiguration of the…Read more The EIP ECPR Workshop in Prague in Review
The Third International iEIP Conference in Review
The Electoral Integrity Project held it’s third international online conference in July 2023. Around 500 participants joining from over 60 countries this year. There was an action packed agenda of 14 panels across the week. The workshop brought the EIP into it’s 12th year of conferences. The workshop comes at an important moment in time.…Read more The Third International iEIP Conference in Review
Global Electoral Integrity Report 2023 published
The new report from the Electoral Integrity Project has reported that election quality has held steady around the world – and increased in many countries. There have been widespread concerns about democratic backsliding around the world with the US launching a Summit for Democracy, asking countries to make commitments to support democratic reform. The Electoral…Read more Global Electoral Integrity Report 2023 published
Automatic voter registration is the key for better registers, new article shows
Voter registration reform is being discussed in many countries. What improves register quality? Holly Ann Garnett and I evaluate electoral register quality in 159 countries in a new research paper. We find that automatic voter registration ('AVR') improves *both* completeness and accuracy. This is significant because many contemporary debates suggest that there is often a…Read more Automatic voter registration is the key for better registers, new article shows
Elections in Emergencies and Crisis – book launched in the Swiss Parliament
A new book on holding Elections During Emergencies and Crises is out now, and free to download. It seeks to learn the lessons from holding elections during the pandemic for future emergency situations. Elections often have to be held in emergency situations. The Covid-19 pandemic was one of the most serious emergency situations that the…Read more Elections in Emergencies and Crisis – book launched in the Swiss Parliament
UK Voter Registration Reform
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee of the UK Parliament has recently launched an inquiry into how to modernise the voter registration system. I gave oral evidence to the first sessional alongside colleague Professor Alistair Clark, which you can watch below. The UK system should introduce direct enrolment for the next generation of voters.…Read more UK Voter Registration Reform
UK Electoral Data Report
The electoral process generates enormous volumes of data. The widespread availability of the data is important for democratic participation. It enables patterns of (non)participation to be traced and interventions to be developed to encourage turnout – including amongst marginalised communities and disengaged voters. It also enables political parties to reach voters and engage them in…Read more UK Electoral Data Report
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