Electoral Administration Act passes into law

10.08.00am GMT Sat 15th Jul 2006

Houses of Parliament

The Electoral Administration Act (2006) passed into law this week, the Act tidies up a number of issues including improving access and engagement, improving confidence, extends openness and transparency in party financing (very apt this week!)

In terms of improving access and engagement the Electoral Administration Act provides the basis for access to registration, postal votes, and voting on polling day by making the following change. It improves confidence by improving security and transparency including introducing two new electoral offences to clamp down on fraud. The Act introduces a new regime for regulation of loans to political parties based on the existing donations rules.

A factsheet, from the Electoral Commission, on the Act is in the download area for those members of the Liberal Democrats that have registered with this site. I suspect a further factsheet will be produced by the Party and I hope to disseminate that as soon as I receive a copy.