{"id":71269,"date":"2016-06-08T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6a8d8cc272719cc5a96a70a8d170fc6a"},"modified":"2016-06-09T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:21:52","slug":"press-release-extending-the-deadline-to-register-to-vote-for-the-eu-referendum-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71269","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Extending the deadline to register to vote for the EU referendum: statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Update on legislation being passed<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Update: Secondary legislation was passed on June 9, confirming the extension of the deadline for registration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Minister for Cabinet Office, Matt Hancock, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Following discussions with the Electoral Commission and strong cross-party support expressed in the House of Commons, we will introduce secondary legislation to extend the deadline for voter registration until midnight tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Having taken the decision today, we think it is right to extend to 23.59 on Thursday 9 June, to allow people who have not yet registered, the time to get the message that registration is still open and get themselves registered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can register to vote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/register-to-vote\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement on introducing secondary legislation to extend the deadline for voter registration.<\/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\/71269"}],"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=71269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71324,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269\/revisions\/71324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}