Over 6 million eligible UK citizens are not signed up to vote. Their voice goes completely unheard in our politics.
We believe every voter should be registered.
Register Every Voter
Unregistered voters are most likely to be young people, renters and ethnic minority voters. We believe their voice needs to be heard.
Automatic voter enrolment systems are already in use in dozens of democracies around the world, including Canada and Australia.
Thousands of Unlock Democracy supporters backed our campaign on this issue. We’re delighted that the government has listened and plans to introduce automatic voter registration in the Elections Bill.
But this must be introduced BEFORE the next General Election, otherwise millions will be locked out of democracy for almost another decade.
Let's catch up with the rest of the world and get millions of missing voters signed up to vote.
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Our report
Register Every Voter: How Automatic Voter Registration can bring the forgotten millions back into our democracy by Toby S. James
This new report sets out how reforms to the electoral registration process can increase the number of citizens on the electoral register.
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Our letter from MPs
The upcoming Elections Bill is the government's big chance to introduce a modern and automatic voter registration system for the UK.
28 parliamentarians have signed our joint letter calling on the Prime Minister to commit to fixing voter registration.
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Civil society letter
We teamed up with 25 civil society organisations to call for automatic voter registration for the UK.
Read our letter to Ministers Rushanara Ali, Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer.