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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The vast majority of first-year students are registered where they were living with their parents, and if they are living in a hall of residence they are simultaneously registered by the university authority, often without their knowledge. They are entitled to vote in either place, but is not the salient point in regard to this Bill that they count twice in determining the size of the electorate? That will create another artificial and arbitrary division based on the date of 1 December.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
516 c896 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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