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Electoral Administration Bill

I do agree. Social inequality is a problem in terms of participation as well as registration. It used to be the case that although people’s educational status and health status were very much affected by their socio-economic status, the one thing that remained equal was the likelihood of their participating in an election, which showed no class differentiation. Worryingly, that has changed in the course of the past three elections. The Institute for Public Policy Research has looked at the numbers and identified a growing gap in terms of the likelihood that those in poorer communities will not vote. In a socially cohesive country and an egalitarian democracy, we must pay attention to people being on the register and participating in the electoral system.