Election-free democracy: The UK as the shape of the future

摘要

Official reports show that the proportion of citizens on the UK electoral register has been falling steadily over the past fifty years from 96 percent in 1949/50 to 95.2 percent in 1991 and 90.5 percent in 2006. In 2010 about 10 percent of citizens in the UK could not vote because they were not on the electoral register. This adds up to about 4.5 million people - more than half the population of London. The rate of decline is accelerating.