Armed Forces Voting

EDM number 862 in 2009-10, proposed by Nick Harvey on 10/02/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Armed forces, Elections and General elections.

That this House expresses concern that a third of service personnel are not currently registered to vote; notes the difficulties which many servicemen and women experience in voting; further notes that the extremely tight timetable for a general election with candidates only being nominated 11 days before polling day, does not leave enough time thereafter for postal ballot papers to be printed, distributed to service personnel deployed abroad, particularly those who are at present in Afghanistan, and returned in time to be included in constituency counts; and calls on the Government to amend the timetable for general elections to match the local election timetable, with candidates being nominated 16 days before polling day, thus easing the logistical barrier to service personnel exercising their right to vote.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Nick Harvey	10/02/2010	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Bob Russell	10/02/2010	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Don Foster	10/02/2010	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Annette Brooke	10/02/2010	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
John Hemming	10/02/2010	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Mark Hunter	10/02/2010	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew Stunell	10/02/2010	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Thurso	10/02/2010	Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Steve Webb	10/02/2010	Northavon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Williams	10/02/2010	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lorely Burt	10/02/2010	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Susan Kramer	10/02/2010	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	10/02/2010	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Daniel Rogerson	10/02/2010	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Rowen	10/02/2010	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Williams	10/02/2010	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Baker	10/02/2010	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Menzies Campbell	10/02/2010	Fife North East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adrian Sanders	10/02/2010	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Smith	10/02/2010	Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Holmes	10/02/2010	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	10/02/2010	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Charles Kennedy	10/02/2010	Ross, Skye & Lochaber	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Moore	10/02/2010	Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lembit	10/02/2010	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	10/02/2010	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	10/02/2010	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	10/02/2010	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Derek Wyatt	22/02/2010	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	22/02/2010	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	22/02/2010	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
David Drew	22/02/2010	Stroud	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	22/02/2010	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	22/02/2010	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	22/02/2010	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Brian Iddon	22/02/2010	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
Bob Spink	22/02/2010	Castle Point	Independent	Signed
John Leech	23/02/2010	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	23/02/2010	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	23/02/2010	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	23/02/2010	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Gordon Prentice	23/02/2010	Pendle	Labour	Signed
Mark Williams	24/02/2010	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Howarth	24/02/2010	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Dobbin	24/02/2010	Heywood & Middleton	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	24/02/2010	Burton	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	24/02/2010	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
William McCrea	24/02/2010	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Chris McCafferty	24/02/2010	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
John Mason	25/02/2010	Glasgow East	Scottish National Party	Signed
Dai Davies	25/02/2010	Blaenau Gwent	Independent	Signed
Brian Jenkins	25/02/2010	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Evan Harris	26/02/2010	Oxford West & Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	26/02/2010	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Dodds	26/02/2010	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Betty Williams	01/03/2010	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Willie Rennie	03/03/2010	Dunfermline & Fife West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Julia Goldsworthy	03/03/2010	Falmouth & Camborne	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tony Baldry	03/03/2010	Banbury	Conservative	Signed
Bill Etherington	03/03/2010	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Alan Beith	04/03/2010	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Edward Davey	04/03/2010	Kingston & Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Eric Illsley	08/03/2010	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	09/03/2010	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Syms	09/03/2010	Poole	Conservative	Signed
John Gummer	15/03/2010	Suffolk Coastal	Conservative	Signed
Patrick Mercer	22/03/2010	Newark	Conservative	Signed
Greg Mulholland	24/03/2010	Leeds North West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Walter	30/03/2010	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Pelling	07/04/2010	Croydon Central	Independent	Signed

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