Girlguiding Introduce Voting Badge!
The UK’s Girlguiding charity has announced that it will be introducing a ‘Voting badge’ to mark the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote!
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Voting Counts Founder Wins Cabinet Office Award
Voting Counts’ founder, Rachael Farrington, has been awarded ‘Young Advocate of the Year’ by the Cabinet as part of the UK’s first National Democracy Week.
Get In Westminster: Breaking Barriers for BAME in Parliament
Get In Westminster is a non-partisan educational programme that aims to empower young students and professionals of colour about career opportunities across the civil service.
Campaigning For Change: Up-Skirting
Gina Martin is successfully leading a campaign to make ‘up-skirting’, the act of taking a photo up a somebody’s skirt without their permission, illegal. Following a personal experience of up-skirting at a festival, she...
Local Elections 2018: #DogsAtPollingStations
One of our favorite polling day traditions is the #DogsAtPollingStations hastag on twitter. It combines our two favorite things, dogs and democracy whats not to love? We thought we’d share some of the best...
Local Elections 2018: 5 Minute Briefing
Local Elections are taking place on this week, here is our five minute guide to what you need to know.
[2018] Manchester: How turnout varies along the Metrolink
This map, created from The University of Manchester, uses the Manchester Metrolink map to show varying levels of voter turnout across Manchester.
Mencap & Electoral Commission’s Easy Read Guide to 2018 Elections
Leading learning disability charity Mencap have today published their ‘Easy Read Guide to Local Elections’, which they have created in conjunction with the Electoral Commission.
Voting Counts Wins UK Parliament Digital Democracy Award!
Yesterday the Voting Counts team was invited to Parliament to receive the Digital Democracy award, which recognised “the work of an individual or organisation that has connected people with the UK Parliament through digital...
Scottish Council Elections 2017: Young Voters
The Electoral Commission recently published an excellent blog post exploring young adults’ attitude towards electoral participation following the Scottish Council Elections, where sixteen and seventeen year olds were able to vote for the first time.
