Democracy Volunteers deployed more than 200 observers, and support team, of the over 300 Democracy Volunteers observers accredited with the UK’s Electoral Commission. These deployed across all the four nations of the UK on 5th May 2022. These observers formed teams of two, and attended 1,723 polling stations: England: 972Northern Ireland: 436Scotland: 285Wales: 30 These … Continue reading FINAL REPORT – UK Local and Assembly Elections 2022
FINAL REPORT – Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2022
Democracy Volunteers deployed 32 observers across Northern Ireland on 5th May 2022. These observers formed teams of two and attended 436 of the 1345 polling places (32.4%). Observers spent between 30 minutes and 60 minutes at each polling venue observing the process and then completed one or more surveys for each polling venue, dependant on … Continue reading FINAL REPORT – Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2022
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT – Northern Ireland local elections 02/05/19
Dr John Ault, Director of the election observer group, Democracy Volunteers, has today urged the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland to update polling station training ahead of voting on 23rd May European Elections, following observing significant levels of ‘family voting’ across Northern Ireland in Thursday’s local elections. Democracy Volunteers, deployed 24 observers across Northern Ireland … Continue reading PRELIMINARY STATEMENT – Northern Ireland local elections 02/05/19
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT – Voter ID Trials 02/05/19
Democracy Volunteers, the UK’s leading election observation group, has today been conducting observations across 4 of the voter ID trial councils to assess their potential impacts on the future of elections in the UK. This follows a voter ID trial over five areas in 2018, in which Democracy Volunteers observed all 5 councils. In 2018, … Continue reading PRELIMINARY STATEMENT – Voter ID Trials 02/05/19
FINAL REPORT – Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 02/03/17
A team of 5 observers, registered with the UK’s Electoral Commission, made 74 separate observations in polling stations across the North Down, Strangford and Belfast East constituencies. This constituted 34.7% of the polling stations in the area. This was: North Down - 46 of the 71 ballot boxes which constituted 65.8% of the total.Strangford - 17 of the … Continue reading FINAL REPORT – Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 02/03/17