Engaging with Newly Enfranchised Voters

Part of 3. Questions to the Senedd Commission – in the Senedd at 3:21 pm on 13 January 2021.

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Photo of Mick Antoniw Mick Antoniw Labour 3:21, 13 January 2021

Llywydd, although we live in this abnormal environment, there is a tremendous opportunity that arises now from the online learning. It seems to me something more direct, which is actually using it also as a tool of engagement—not in terms of any form of political direction, but in terms of specifically identifying, among that 16 to 17 group, and promoting the right to vote, the right to registration, and making it part of it. It is a tool that could actually promote that. I wonder if you've thought about how that might occur. I know that it might involve engagement with the education Minister or whatever, but it seems to me that it's an opportunity not to be missed.