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'Individual Electoral Registration' (IER) was introduced by the UK government through the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 with the first IER applications being made in England and Wales from 10 June 2014 and in Scotland from 19 September 2014 (the delay in Scotland was due to the Scottish Independence Referendum). [3]
The Westminster government had introduced IER to Northern Ireland in 2002 in the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, but England, Wales and Scotland continued to use a system of householder registration. [3] The UK's politically independent Electoral Commission had been pushing for such a reform for some time. [4]
In the UK voter registration is compulsory, [39] but the requirement to register is rarely enforced. [40] The 2023 system of registration in the United Kingdom (UK), is known as rolling registration. [41] Electors can register with a local authority at any time of the year. This replaced the twice-yearly census of electors, which often ...
In the United Kingdom, an electoral registration officer (ERO) is a person who has the statutory duty to compile and maintain the electoral roll [1] (which includes conducting the annual canvass [2]).
Application forms can be returned to the local electoral registration officer by post, by fax or by e-mail as a scanned attachment. [28] As of June 2014, as part of the Government's Digital By Default policy, voters in England and Wales can register to the electoral roll online. [29]
The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom [2] which amended electoral law in the United Kingdom. It introduced Individual Electoral Registration (IER).
To receive a postal vote for an election, the postal vote application must have been received by the electoral registration officer by 5 p.m. eleven working days before polling day. Returning officers issue and despatch postal ballot packs at 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before polling day at the earliest.
The electoral roll in Hong Kong is maintained by the Registration and Electoral Office (REO). The final register is available every year on 25 July, except for years in which elections for the territory's district councils are held, when the final register is available on 15 September.