{"id":70683,"date":"2016-05-18T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=44dea7a788deb74051e9d9ff0bf9ed2d"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:46:37","slug":"news-story-civilcrime-news-registering-to-vote-in-eu-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70683","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil\/crime news: registering to vote in EU referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Help people avoid the disappointment of trying to vote on whether the UK should stay in the EU only to find they are not on the electoral register.<\/p>\n<p>Many people mistakenly believe themselves to be on the register and are turned away at polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>So, in common with other government departments and arms length bodies, we\u2019re encouraging people to make sure they can vote in the EU referendum on Thursday 23 June.<\/p>\n<p>Online resources are available which allow people to register or to update their details in good time \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-do-people-know-if-they-are-registered\">How do people know if they are registered?<\/h3>\n<p>Anyone registered to vote will receive a poll card by Wednesday 25 May. Anyone unsure whether they are registered should contact their local electoral registration office \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is not registered to vote should do so by Tuesday 7 June.<\/p>\n<p>People also need to register if they have moved house.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/RTV-310\">Register to vote<\/a> \u2013 information about registration process and voting options<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/electoral-register\">Contact your local electoral registration office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spreading the word to encourage people to have their say in the EU referendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}