'Pitiful' number of expats registered to vote in next general election - Telegraph

'Pitiful' number of expats registered to vote in next general election - Telegraph:

An Electoral Commission report indicated that fewer than 13,000 of the 5.5 million Britons living abroad are on the British electoral register.

With an election due by June 2010, an estimated 2.5 million expats are eligible to join the register - the remainder having lived abroad for longer than 15 years.

Anyone who has been registered to vote in Britain within the past 15 years can sign up and expats who were below voting age when they left the UK can register at the last place their parent or guardian was registered.