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Post by manchesterman on Aug 16, 2020 12:33:59 GMT
I like the idea of the megaphone van being brought out of retirement
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Post by manchesterman on Aug 16, 2020 12:44:20 GMT
Telephone canvassing and persuading in lieu of leaflets and door knocking is a solution. All candidates interviewed on local radio and in the local rag is a solution Counting 1 ward at a time is a solution to reduce staffing, even only one polling station at a time is a solution. If it takes 2 weeks to get all results so be it. Masks and social Distancing at poll are a solution, to protect poll officers. Polling over 3 or 4 days is a solution to reduce contact. Either let people come as they like or by surname A-F on day 1 G- on day 2 etc. Having people nominated who will observe all counting, as a short term measure. Candidates and agents may not see the count but someone knowledgeable and available they trust will. If we count 1 box at a time it will take time but they will not be running around a lot but sitting at a Socially sensible distance at which they can still observe. Voting one ward a week is a solution, why do they all need to be on one day in May. You can count in smaller rooms more isolated rooms this way. Promoting postal and proxy voting now is a solution, for when the elections happen. If people are to afraid to go out to the poll at least they have had a chance to register and get a postal vote. Its is really not difficult to do if you want to. But do councils, government and our political parties really want to do it? This has the added bonus for nerds like us that they could announce individual ward scores, then with the final cumulative constituency result at the end
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Aug 16, 2020 17:27:13 GMT
I like the idea of the megaphone van being brought out of retirement In a couple of general elections we had an activist with a performing rights license, so we drove around Brightside playing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 16, 2020 18:15:47 GMT
I like the idea of the megaphone van being brought out of retirement In a couple of general elections we had an activist with a performing rights license, so we drove around Brightside playing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. PRS/PPL licences are generally based on buildings/organisations rather than individuals, so I would think that, as at a political rally you would have needed a special permission.
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Aug 16, 2020 19:45:45 GMT
In a couple of general elections we had an activist with a performing rights license, so we drove around Brightside playing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. PRS/PPL licences are generally based on buildings/organisations rather than individuals, so I would think that, as at a political rally you would have needed a special permission. I'm not sure what the correct terminology is/was. He had some sort of radio license and/or something that covered "public performance" by playing music from a car. I'm fairly sure 14 hours' needle fees went on the expenses.
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Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Aug 16, 2020 20:25:48 GMT
During the 2010 general election, I put forward the suggestion of playing this little classic in Ceredigion to put forward the idea that the dream of a Liberal Democrat government was possible, the idea was abandoned because nobody knew the song.
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Post by PeopleLikeWe on Aug 16, 2020 21:45:12 GMT
I was toying with this gem in the 2019 locals...the mistake I would fear is the next track is rather sexual if I forgot to press repeat!
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Post by greenhert on Aug 25, 2020 10:36:23 GMT
Consultation for new warding patterns for St Helens and Derbyshire Dales Councils has opened.
Note that St Helens will be switching to full council elections from 2022.
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Post by Wisconsin on Sept 1, 2020 16:36:57 GMT
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 1, 2020 18:02:52 GMT
A new electoral changes order has been published: The Postponed Elections and Referendums (Coronavirus) and Policy Development Grants (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/926). Makes further provision in respect of the elections in England which were abandoned earlier this year due to obvious reasons. The general thrust is that most things which were done in relation to those by-elections are now void and the postponed poll (once it eventually happens) will start the process again from scratch. Part I of the Regulations is introductory. Chapter I of Part II relates to postal votes. Regulation 3 provides that postal votes cast in by-elections in England which were abandoned in March and April this year will not count towards the poll once it eventually takes place, and that people who had already voted by post will be able to cast fresh postal votes in the poll once it eventually takes place. Regulation 6 makes similar provision in respect of referendums. Regulations 4 and 5 make detailed provision as to how the returning officer is to dispose of the postal votes and related documents already returned. Chapter II of Part II relate to candidates for the London Mayoral election and for the local by-elections in England which were abandoned earlier this year. Essentially, they are no longer candidates and will no longer be treated as having been candidates (so they will not have to fill out expense returns, etc). Chapter III of Part II relates to England and Wales, and allows returning officers for the cancelled Police and Crime Commissioner elections to recover their expenses. Part III makes technical changes to the Electoral Commission's policy development grants scheme.
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Post by Wisconsin on Sept 1, 2020 18:14:02 GMT
Sorry to be a pain, but is there not a better thread for these SIs? This doesn’t seem to relate to boundary commissions and re-warding.
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peterl
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Post by peterl on Sept 1, 2020 18:55:49 GMT
A new electoral changes order has been published.... Thanks for posting this, but would you mind checking the link, it seems to be somthing to do with social security contributions.
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 1, 2020 19:03:59 GMT
A new electoral changes order has been published.... Thanks for posting this, but would you mind checking the link, it seems to be somthing to do with social security contributions. Apologies, that's fixed now.
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 1, 2020 19:15:29 GMT
Sorry to be a pain, but is there not a better thread for these SIs? This doesn’t seem to relate to boundary commissions and re-warding. Fair enough. I've changed the thread title to "Local government boundary and electoral changes" to accommodate the drift.
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Post by Wisconsin on Sept 1, 2020 19:19:03 GMT
Sorry to be a pain, but is there not a better thread for these SIs? This doesn’t seem to relate to boundary commissions and re-warding. Fair enough. I've changed the thread title to "Local government boundary and electoral changes" to accommodate the drift. Erm... But this forum is all about boundaries. Can’t we have a simple thread about local boundary reviews?
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 1, 2020 19:32:50 GMT
Fair enough. I've changed the thread title to "Local government boundary and electoral changes" to accommodate the drift. Erm... But this forum is all about boundaries. Can’t we have a simple thread about local boundary reviews? When I originally started this thread nearly eight years ago I'd intended it primarily as a place where I could keep track of the SIs - there is value in having them all together in one thread. There wasn't a Boundaries subforum at the time, the thread just ended up being moved there at some point. The non-boundary electoral SIs ended up in this thread because there didn't seem anywhere better to put them. The posts about local boundary reviews are perfectly on-topic and I have no objection to them.
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 11, 2020 12:37:23 GMT
Royal Assent has been given to the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), an Act of the Scottish Parliament to reform certain aspects of the law relating to Scottish parliamentary and local government elections, including length of terms; to make provision about the role of the Electoral Commission in relation to those elections; to confer functions on the Electoral Management Board for Scotland in relation to Scottish parliamentary elections; to rename and make provision about the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland; and for connected purposes. Part 1 of the Act (sections 1 to 9) contains general reforms. Sections 1 and 2 relate to term lengths. Section 1 extends the term length of the Scottish Parliament from four years to five. Section 2 extends the term length of Scottish local councillors from four years to five. Section 3 provides for general elections of the Scottish Parliament to be postponed in certain circumstances. Sections 4 to 7 relate to Scottish local government elections. Section 4 allows wards to be drawn with between two and five councillors (rather then 3 or 4 as at present). Section 5 prohibits double voting in Scottish local elections. Section 6 provides for electronic voting in Scottish local elections [ Edited to add: this is a technical amendment to cater for possible future pilots, there's no actual scheme of electronic voting here]. Section 7 provides that pilot schemes in Scottish local elections should be reported on by the Electoral Commission rather than by the local council involved. Section 8 amends the Representation of the People Act 1983 to enable 14-year-olds to register to vote in Scottish local government elections, the register to indicate the age on which they become eligible to vote. Part 2 (sections 9 to 23) relates to and confers various functions on the Electoral Commission and Part 3 (sections 24 to 27) amends the functions of the Electoral Management Board for Scotland as described above. Part 4 (sections 28 to 33 and the Schedule) relate to the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, which is to be renamed as "Boundaries Scotland" (section 28). Boundaries Scotland will be required to review all Scottish local council electoral arrangements every fifteen years, with the next review to report no later than December 2028. Boundaries Scotland will also be responsible for reviewing Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries; the next review has been postponed to report by May 2025, as opposed to the previous deadline of May 2022. There are various other procedural changes. Part 5 (sections 34 to 36) provides for ancillary provision, commencement and the short title. Part 5 came into force on 9th July 2020; the rest of the Act will come into force on a day or dates to be appointed. The Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/278) have been laid. Most of Parts 1 and 2 and all of Part 3 will come into force on 1 October 2020. In Part 1, no commencement date has yet been set for sections 2, 4 and 5.
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 14, 2020 20:58:19 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Sept 15, 2020 19:07:42 GMT
Draft recommendations for new Norfolk CC and Suffolk CC divisions now available: www.lgbce.org.uk/mediaThey are extensive in Suffolk primarily due to a reduction in councillor numbers and as a result of the mergers of Forest Heath & St Edmundsbury and Suffolk Coastal & Waveney respectively last year (the proposed division of Clare crosses the old border between the former two and the proposed division of Blyth Estuary crosses the old border between the latter two). Also, the draft recommendations for Suffolk CC contain only single member divisions (there are currently as many as twelve 2-member county council divisions in Suffolk, and five of them are within the boundaries of the former district of Waveney).
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Post by greenhert on Sept 22, 2020 12:28:46 GMT
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