When New Europeans investigated the #DeniedMyVote scandal in 2014, it quickly became clear that the entire process for registering EU citizens for the EU elections was flawed from start to finish.

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One of our findings at the time was that the information collected on the UC1 forms which the government insisted EU citizens completed before they could vote in the UK, was not being passed on properly or in a timely way to other EU member states.

Since the whole purpose of the UC1 form was to prevent EU citizens from voting both in the UK and in their member state of origin, this discovery undermined the legitimacy of the whole process.

If the UK government was unable to process the information on the UC1 forms in time for it to be passed on to other EU member states before the election, then what was the point of collecting the data in the first place? Doing so has cost over 1m EU citizens their vote.

We now discover that exactly the same problem that we helped to identify in 2014 has occurred again in 2019.

It was revealed today by Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk  that the Dutch Interior Ministry received data from only 200 local registration officials, out of over 380 local registration officers.

Even where they did get the data, Dutch authorities were unable to process it, either because was unreadable or because key data points, including date of birth and full first name was missing. 

Just as New Europeans did at the time, the Dutch government  complained of the exact same problem in 2014.

But in five years, nothing has been done about it.

We are continuing to gather data and to pass it on to the European Parliament and the European Commission and to call for a public inquiry in the UK.

We will not let this drop, and with your help we will continue to seek out the evidence to support the view that EU citizens and many Britons abroad were systematically excluded from voting in the EU elections.

It's a democratic outrage and we want to expose the full extent of it.

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We also ask you to help by contributing to our campaign appeal (please see below) so that we can 

Each and every contribution, no matter how small or big, allows us to run a professional and effective campaign for a public inquiry into #DeniedMyVote.

With your help and contribution, we will be able to spread the word on Twitter and Facebook, reach out to MPs and MEPs, and prepare in-depth and high-quality reports on this topic.

We want to make sure a public inquiry doesn't just stay a demand, but becomes  reality. You can help us do that.

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