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<p>Individual Electoral Registration (IER) and online registration were introduced
in Great Britain last year, replacing the outdated system of household registration.
Online registration has proved popular: over three quarters of the 9.6 million applications
to register to vote made since June 2014 have been submitted online. Since June 2014,
over 2.2 million applications have been received from 16-24 year olds.</p><p><br>
The Government strongly supports the principle underlying IER, that people must make
an individual application to register to vote, and is currently examining the results
of prompted enrolment schemes such as the one recently undertaken at Sheffield University,
to see if they have wider application.</p>
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