Showing posts with label Cambridge City Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambridge City Council. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Gen-Z voters told they are 100 years old in postal ballot blunder

Gen-Z voters told they are 100 years old in postal ballot blunder

From the article: "Chang Liu is a 22-year-old clinical medicine student at the University of Cambridge who received an erroneous ballot that would have prompted him to claim he was born in 1902. He told The Telegraph: “It is ridiculous that a simple printing error threatens to disenfranchise thousands of young people. ...A bungling council gave voters born after 2000 postal ballots with dates of birth in the 1900s. Cambridge City Council emailed more than 1,000 postal voters aged between 18 and 24, telling them a printing error meant their ballots suggested they were aged between 118 and 124. ..."


Article Reference: www.msn.com