Mental Health Patients and Voting
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust has relaunched its campaign to encourage mental health patients and service users to register to vote and get their voice heard. However, they remain one of...
Category: Blog
I’m Emma, and politics affects me.
Tell me a little about you… Hi! My name is Emma and I’m a twenty-something marketing coordinator from Cornwall. I have a two year old son and blog at A Cornish Geek. Did you vote...
I’m Becky, and politics affects me.
Tell me a little about you… I’m Becky, a 28 year old master’s student and self-employed blogger from Hampshire. Follow me on Twitter here! Did you vote at the last general election? And why? Yes!...
I’m Emmie, and politics affects me.
Tell me a little about you… Hi I’m Emmie and I’m a Secondary School Teaching Assistant as well as a UK Culture and Lifestyle Blogger based in Leicester. I tweet quite a lot over...
Youtuber Hannah Witton talks voting!
Ahead of the snap General Election, Youtuber Hannah Witton has recorded a video demonstrating just how easy it is to register to vote! In the video she also gives Voting Counts a little shout...
The Rules of Engagement Podcast – Episode One: Online Voting
Welcome to the Rules of Engagement Podcast, the podcast dedicated to political engagement brought to you from Voting Counts! In this first episode, we speak to Areeq from WebRoots Democracy, a campaign to introduce...
Voting Counts in the UniBox!
We are super excited to see our ‘Little Guides to Elections & Voting’ in the UniBox! Our little guides are a great introduction to all things elections and include loads of information about how to...
What happens when polls close? The Count.
UK Polling Stations are open 7am-10pm on the day of an election, but what happens when those doors close? When the doors close at 10pm the ballot boxes are quickly transported to the location...
The Potential Power of Non-Voters (GE2017)
Election Maps UK is a really interesting twitter feed which collates data from elections into graphics. One of their recent tweets caught our eye. These graphics demonstrate the potential power of non voters.
Voting Counts Wins Pure Potential Award
Yesterday we attended the Pure Potential Awards in stunning Canary Wharf. Out of the 2000 students that had been nominated Voting Counts’ founder Rachael had been whittled down to the one of the final 45...
