UK elections chief says children need lessons from 11 to be ready to vote at 16 | Electoral Commission

The United Kingdom election guard will have to ask schools to give democracy lessons to children from the age of 11 and ask teachers to leave their policies at the classroom gate to help vote at the age of 16.

Vijay Rangarajan, General Manager of the Election Commission, said that democratic education will be presented to those older than 14 years of age to prepare for the vote at 16 in the next elections.

However, he said that it should start at the age of 11 so that students are in the best position to benefit from the ability of students to vote at 16 and 17.

In the midst of the calls of some politicians such as David Blunkett, the Election Commission is preparing materials to give schools to help democratic education. Better preparation.

In an interview with Guardian, Rangarajan said that the major studies have entered the citizenship material to make “neutral” and make sure that schools and teachers do not try to shake the students about how to vote.

“Teachers need to be really good here to quit their personal views,” he said. “And clarifying, only personal views when they have personal views.”

Nigel Farage, the leader of the reform, complained that he saw the education system as “full of left prejudice” and “anti -reform prejudice ..

Rangarajan said that teachers will need really good materials and some guidance about how you can teach these things well ”and they have the mechanics of how the system works.

Orum I can see that several political parties have concerns about partial, so we spend a lot of time on how we are sure that the material is really neutral, ”he said.

A survey of 6,000 teachers by the teacher TAPP, more than 80% of the national curriculum is currently preparing enough to vote at the age of 16, he said, about half of the age of 16 and 17, he said.

Rangarajan, a former Brazilian ambassador to lead the regulator for more than a year, was one of the big lessons of the Scottish Movement to vote in the referendum of independence for the 16 -year -old and in the local and Holyrood elections.

“The main lesson we took was extremely irregular in schools in Scotland, so we really work early on education things,” he said. “Many teachers said, ‘We don’t want to engage in the Scottish referendum, which was really sensitive. So teachers need some support.”

As a election guard, the national material means that teachers can “blame us if parents do not always like us, but meant good participation between young people. The election chief also said that it is very important to explain how to critically evaluate the online material of young people and how wrong information is.

There are evidence that the reducing age of voting for the elections in Scotland and Wales increases democratic participation, but there are data that shows that the possibility of adhesion is higher if voting habits occur early.

Rangarajan spoke with Guardian after explaining the election reform package to tighten the government’s political financing rules, to abuse candidates, to increase the fines to violate the rules and to move towards a more automatic recording of voters.

The authority said that the Election Commission wanted some gaps to be closed to stop the entry of some gaps since 2013, so it was important to see that the government has brought changes to bringing back voter confidence to the system.

However, Boris Johnson called the ministers the right to identify policy goals and called for more action to bring back the independence of the Election Commission after the first time under the supervision of the government.

“The purpose of the principle depends on an election for re -election of a government,” he said. “And this should not be able to instruct the people who try to make a referee to be re -elected.”

So far, the government has resisted Johnson’s changes, but the promised election legislation of the peers Election Commission can force it to be completely independent when it comes to the House of Lords.

In addition, especially to protect female candidates from deep leaf porn and crypto currency and political mass funds to strengthen the rules to strengthen the rules to see if it needs more work, he said.

Currently, the biggest concern in terms of defending democracy, people who want to be politicians, especially women and ethnic minority candidates who want to be abused, he said. “Very sex,” he said. “We enter the realms of some deep leaves porn, so we see that it is used as a direct tool against female candidates.”

The conference of a speaker examines the issue, the election commission, the centralized police, election officials, and participating in the participants of malicious materials, participating in Scottish pilots including IT experts working together.

Some ministers said that despite the pressure on the ban on crypto money donations that may be difficult to watch, Rangarajan said that this was not necessary because it was already a great responsibility in the parties to ensure that they know the source of their donations. “Parties are given much more bizarre things than crypto,” he said, pointing to the use of artworks, foreign trips, or the use of yachts that may be more difficult to measure.