To: The Government and Parliament
The Electoral Roll and democratic constituency boundaries
NOT to redraw constituency boundaries on the basis of this autumn's Electoral Roll, but on the basis of actual or estimated population of eligible voters.
Why is this important?
To avoid or at least mitigate the continuing disenfranchisement of those who often do not vote, not from ignorance or inertia, but due to circumstances which make registering relatively complicated or impracticable - people who rent short term, people who have just moved, students away from home, etc. (cf. Danny Dorling, The i paper 2 Oct 2015). Areas where more people are owner-occupiers could end up with more MPs per person - perhaps 1 MP per 60,000 eligible voters as opposed to 1 MP per 80,000 in an area of mostly rented accommodation, or with many students, or with more deprivation. A fair democracy should represent everyone, regardless of the relative stability of their lives.
How it will be delivered
Initially E- mail to Minister Responsible, to Speaker of the House of Commons and to the Boundary Commission
