Labour considers automatic voter registration to add millions to electoral roll

All British adults could be automatically registered to vote under radical plans being considered by Jeremy Corbyn‘s Labour Party. The move could see around seven million voters being added to the electoral register, with huge numbers of young and low income individuals automatically enrolled for the first time. Mr Corbyn's party believes the current system of individual registration has so far failed to give a voice to huge swathes of the UK public, and Labour will now examine various models around the world. According to the most up-to-date analysis by the Electoral Commission, between 7.6 and 8.3 million eligible people were not correctly registered to vote across Great Britain in 2015, including one in three under the age of 34.