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‘Left without a voice’: October general election could leave students in UK unable to vote
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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No, it's the government's fault for aiming to schedule an election at a highly abnormal time, which would disproportionately affect students, with no reasoning that I've seen given for the choice. Based on that, I'm definitely going to blame the government for what appears to be a blatant attempt to reduce the number of student voters (a demographic which, despite relatively low turnout rates to begin with, are overwhelmingly more likely to vote for Labour)
There were October elections in 1924, 31, 51, 59, 64, 74. I'm sure the motives behind this aren't good, but before Thatcher it was a common time to hold elections.