Electoral (Amendment) (Prisoners' Franchise) Bill 2005

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

Prisoners would be allowed to vote by post in elections, while remaining registered in the constituencies where they ordinarily lived rather than where they are imprisoned. Prison governors and other custodians would have to help prisoners register for and use postal votes, ensuring imprisonment does not prevent them exercising their voting rights.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for a mechanism for prisoners to exercise their electoral franchises and to amend and extend the electoral act 1992

Last updated 14 September 2018