100K register to vote in UK in 48 hours
With Britain poised for snap general election, young people make up bulk of new applications
Ben Quinn
Wed 4 Sep 2019 13.32 EDT
First published on Wed 4 Sep 2019 08.38 EDT
... On Monday, 52,408 applications were submitted, according to government figures, followed by 64,485 on Tuesday ...
Parties that have traditionally drawn support from younger people will be most encouraged by the figures, which show that 58% of applications submitted on the two days were from people aged 34 and under. Many of those signing up this week are understood to be students moving into new areas for the start of term, but experts pointed out that others may have put registering on the backburner ...
... the deadline for applying to register to vote would be 27 September if a snap general election were to take place on 15 October, as Downing Street is understood to be planning ...
... the National Union of Students (NUS) is launching a voter registration campaign in partnership with the Electoral Commission next week and will be visible at campus “welcome weeks” around the country. Alongside the “Got 5” campaign, the union will also be launching social media videos tailored to individual student communities to explain the importance of registering to vote ...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/04/more-than-100000-people-apply-register-vote-youth-uk-general-election
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disinterested young folks. Well, they're waking up over here, and it sounds like they're waking up over there.