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Automatic voter registration may be an answer to UK’s troubling turnout gap

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Voter turnout in general elections stayed above 70% from 1945 through to 1997 .

But it collapsed to 59.4% when Tony Blair won his second term in 2001 .

The decline has been acute enough to trigger concern among Labour officials.

Getting people automatically registered would be transformative for improving turnout.

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