What is a General Election

 

You can find information about General Elections here from Mencap here

 

Inclusion North campaigns to support people with a learning disability and autistic people to use their vote if they want to.

 

Inclusion North are working with lots of different organisations to make sure that everyone knows how to vote.

 

·         My Vote, My Voice – find their website here 

·         Difference North East – find their website here 

·         Learning Disability England – find their voting resources here

·         Skills for People and Independent Voices

 

More information

 

Watch this short news report by Ruben Reuter, asking why people with a learning disability were not part of an advert to get people to vote learning disabled people excluded from voter registration ad but why? Channel 4 News

 

Resources

 

You must register to vote by midnight on 18th June. Here is the Government’s Easy Read guide on how to register to vote (Easy-Read-Guide-to-Registering-to-Vote.pdf publishing.service.gov.uk 

 

You need photo identification (known as ID) to vote now. The deadline to register for ID is 5pm on Wednesday 26th June. Find information here (How to apply for a Voter Authority Certificate Easy Read  publishing.service.gov.uk

 

Manifestos

 

Manifestos are the things that a political party says are important reasons to vote for them.

It tells you what they say they will do if they win the election

 

You can see the easy read manifestos in the downloads at the side of the screen.