Voter registration gets boost from social networking
THE Electoral Commission will turn to Facebook for the first time today to encourage young voters to head to the ballot box.
The Commission is hoping that tens of thousands of unregistered voters will download personalised registration forms from the social networking site, ahead of the April 20 deadline for the General Election on May 6.
The new application on the site's Democracy UK page will be supported by a major advertising campaign.
Each individual UK Facebook user who logs into their account tomorrow will receive a "prompt" asking them if they are registered to vote – and if not, they will be directed to the new page.