Are you registered to vote?

November 15, 2014

The Electoral Commision website has a web application that allows one to check if he/she is registered to vote. The application would be useful to those who are going to vote for the first time. They can verify if their registration is ok; in case it’s not they should inform the Electoral Commission Office. Their address is mentioned on the contact page.

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One can also find the number of electors in each village.

Thumbs up for making such tools available. Improve the “User Interface” & “User Experience” though.


While I was already on the website I checked a couple of pages. Needless to say I dislike the look. Plain HTML files with no symmetric layout and a footer with a bunch of texts without any working link.

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Update #1

People reported having glitches in their name when displayed. If the name has characters like ä, ë, ï, ö etc, the character is replaced by the ? symbol. I checked the page source and noticed they are using windows-1252 character-set.


UTF-8 character set would be expected in such an application.