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Originally Posted by Livia

What crashed the system was a host of people who couldn't get their sh1t together in time and all tried to register right up against the deadline. And honestly, when you've had the whole year to register and you couldn't be bothered until hours before the deadline, I'm not sure your vote is going to be worth waiting for.

I wasn't talking about the crash, I meant the entirely new system of individual voter registration itself which has meant nearly a million people falling off the register - it's appalling and so if the deadline being extended means more of those who were ****ed over by it now get their chance to vote, that isn't a bad thing.

It doesn't matter when people choose to register. It's not an incremental deadline where if you register twelve months in advance your vote is worth ten times more than someone who registers twelve days before. A deadline is a deadline. If I submit an essay half an hour before it is due, it is marked and treated in exactly the same manner as someone who did it a day before me.

If people were trying to register after the deadline then you would have a point, but so long as it were before the deadline it doesn't make a blind bit of difference to how 'worthy' their vote is, what nonsense.

Originally Posted by Cherie

Why bother with a deadline at all? The only reason it was extended was to favour "remain"' do you honestly think they would have extended for any other reason so yes we should be bothered

The argument that it favours the remain side is pure conjecture, what about those who are undecided? Perhaps they weren't sure if they were going to vote, watched the debate and then thought it best to register?

The simple fact is by extending the deadline more people are going to be entitled to exercise their democratic right to vote, that isn't a bad thing no matter how people wish to look at it and really it speaks volumes if you think it is