Submitted by Joanna Selwood on Monday 21st June 2021
Published on Monday 26th July 2021
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Signatures: 485
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British ~ Cancel ~ commission ~ Committee ~ democracy ~ Elected ~ Elections ~ Electoral Commission ~ independence ~ Law ~ Parliamentary ~ Power ~ Punish ~ Scrap ~ Scraps ~ The Commission
Keep the Electoral Commission independent. Strengthen it, don't weaken it!
Cancel plans to strip the Electoral Commission of it's powers to prosecute law breaking & scrap plans to have a political committee regulate it's strategy and policy.
For the Commission to work properly, it needs to be completely independent & be able to punish those who break election laws
The Government announced plans to strip the Electoral Commission of the power to prosecute law breaking and to have a Parliamentary committee decide what it should do
This will undermine both it's impartiality, and it's ability to hold people to account for breaking electoral law
At a time when democracy is under threat all over the world, undermining an independent body that protects how British elections work, and making it potentially subject to political interference is a backwards step
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