Closed petition Keep the Electoral Commission independent. Strengthen it, don't weaken it!

Closed on 26 January 2022

Cancel plans to strip the Electoral Commission of it's powers to prosecute law breaking & scrap plans to have a political committee regulate it's strategy and policy.

For the Commission to work properly, it needs to be completely independent & be able to punish those who break election laws

The Government announced plans to strip the Electoral Commission of the power to prosecute law breaking and to have a Parliamentary committee decide what it should do

This will undermine both it's impartiality, and it's ability to hold people to account for breaking electoral law

At a time when democracy is under threat all over the world, undermining an independent body that protects how British elections work, and making it potentially subject to political interference is a backwards step