In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Electoral Commission chair Jenny Watson repeated the Commission’s interest in seeing a switch to weekend voting:
Flexible election schedules, including opening the polls for entire weekends, should be considered to make the system more relevant to 21st century life, she said.
These comments echo strong public support for weekend voting, support from a Liberal Democrat front bencher, Lord (Chris) Rennard, and previous Electoral Commission statements.
In the interview, Jenny Watson also gave her support to the much more controversial issue of looking again at online voting, expressed doubts about how many general election counts would be able to be carried out overnight and emphasised the importance of introducing individual registration.
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Still disagree – I want a single movable annual national holiday for elections. If you vote you get paid – if you don’t, you don’t. That’s a double incentive.
And call it V-Day!