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[email protected] · April 13th 15, 11:03 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at 19:41:26 on Sat, 11
Apr 2015, Tim Roll-Pickering remarked:
Under that rule I would not have been able to register until four
months after graduating. And that's having taken a "gappy year". For
most University students the October-after-they-became-21 would be
after they graduated, even if born between 1st Sept and whatever the
date in October was.

10th then. 15th now.

The market is shifting these days for all manner of reasons such that I
suspect most would now be caught for everything from four year courses to
those taking a year out (now more for raising finances than anything
else) to a growth in the mature and postgraduate market.

I'd add "taking five years to GCSE" onto that as well.

But remember that my original calculation required *at least one* of
the three 'delay factors' for a student to be 21 in their final year,
and according to Colin, to qualify to vote your birthday would have
to be before October, so even then most students wouldn't be eligible.

So we can all now understand why the question of students being registered
to vote at their term time addresses only arose when the voting age was
lowered in 1970.

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Colin Rosenstiel