The 2021 Senedd Election

Part of 4. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:40 pm on 11 March 2020.

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Photo of Mick Antoniw Mick Antoniw Labour 3:40, 11 March 2020

Llywydd, I was in Garth Olwg school in my constituency recently, and I can tell you how enthusiastic so many of the young students are that they will actually be participating in the Assembly election votes next year. One of the things that was considered when the legislation was going through the Assembly was not only the issue of political education but also the idea of how we actually make voting easier—the digitisation, perhaps, of the electoral register, perhaps the automatic registration of 16-year-olds, because they are all either in school or in colleges, and that would be something that would be quite feasible. And also why shouldn't it be the case that we have ballot boxes in schools? So, all of these were new ideas that were suggested in terms of how to make voting easier and also to increase participation in voting. Are any of those things on the cards? Are they under consideration? Might you be able to enlighten us as to whether there has been any progress with some of these ideas?