What a load of nonsense.
When you move house, you go on the government website and register to vote at your new address. It takes 5 minutes. What's the difficulty?
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
83 points (97.7% liked)
UK Politics
3097 readers
127 users here now
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
You underestimate the laziness factor.
I’m a mortgage adviser, and the amount of people who don’t update their address with their bank or on their driving licence astounds me, some for years.
We have a client who still has their maiden name on their bank statements - they got married over 10 years ago.
Though I don't doubt there's a fair chunk of forgotten/ can't be bothered etc, some places make the process incredibly difficult, or flat out refuse, or accept the new address and don't actually change it on their internal system.
Seven attempts to change my address with the GP. Seven times they said, "yes that's all sorted", then sent things to my old address anyway. (I did have a postal redirect set up, so was still receiving things).
When they send the "is this correct" for the electoral register, they (the council, I guess?) will re-add my partner's brother, who previously lived with us in a different flat, but has never lived in this house. They will also remove him from his actual address. We'll fix it again, and they'll do the same next time.
A power company had my name wrong for 10 years. They wouldn't change it, unless I could supply ID for the badly misspelt name on the account i.e. "We're sorry, Mr John Smith, but we're going to need permission from Mr John Smoht to change the name. If you can send us a copy of Mr Smoht's passport...".
Other's I remember less specifically, "Send us your change of address request by fax" and "You have to come to this building to change it, but only this member of staff can do it and they're off on sick".
If people can't be arsed to take five minutes out of their day to change a small thing, then that's their problem.
Not sure how it's the government's problem, given that we're bombarded with "register to vote" adverts around election time. They can't register for you.
Wait…I have seen this movie before