Opinion What is the real motive behind individual voter registration? Rowenna Davis -- -- 2010 General Election Polling Day 'From June 2014, every person will have to sign up individually or they can expect to be turned away at the ballot box.' Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire/Press Association Images -- -- This crisis is about to get even worse under the government's new proposals for individual voter registration. In the past, one member of a household could sign up everyone living at the property on to the electoral register. From June, every person will have to sign up -- -- a household could sign up everyone living at the property on to the electoral register. From June, every person will have to sign up individually or they can expect to be turned away at the ballot box. Labour candidates have been shouting from the rooftops about this -- -- are being picked up fastest in councils under Labour control. The government says that individual voter registration is needed to prevent fraud, and I expect it would reject Labour's proposed solutions on the same grounds. The problem is that there is no evidence to -- -- trust and inspire people to want to register in the first place. But the government's proposed changes will make things worse. If individuals are being turned away from polling stations for reasons they cannot understand they will lose faith in democracy, and our political system is impoverished by becoming smaller. We cannot allow -- -- Number of voters on electoral register drops by 920,000 Electoral Commission says 117 local authorities have reported falls of 3-12%, and may recommend delay in transition to individual registration Published: 24 Feb 2015 -- -- * Britain's missing voters: why individual registration has been a disaster More than 1 million voters have already dropped off the electoral register and 7 million more could follow after the 2015 election, -- -- explains Paul Wheeler Published: 5 Feb 2015 Britain's missing voters: why individual registration has been a disaster -- -- + Government plans to use individual voter register for 2015 election Published: 23 Oct 2013 -- Published: 23 Oct 2013 Government plans to use individual voter register for 2015 election +