Bite The Ballot

Bite The Ballot
Foundedc. 2010
FoundersDavid Hughesman, Michael Sani, students of Wilmington Enterprise College
Dissolvedc. 2020 (successor, Play Verto)
TypeYouth democracy organisation
Region served
United Kingdom
Websitebitetheballot.co.uk

Bite The Ballot was a British youth democracy engagement organisation focused on voter registration and civic participation among young people.

Founded in 2010 by teachers Michael Sani and David Hughesman, the organisation ran campaigns promoting voter registration, political education and youth participation in elections. It organised National Voter Registration Day, the Turn Up campaign, the Leaders Live debates and the digital engagement platform Verto.

Bite The Ballot stated that its aim was to encourage young people to make informed voting decisions, increase youth electoral participation, and ensure young people's views were represented in UK politics.[1]

During the 2010s, Bite The Ballot worked with local authorities, media organisations, charities and UK Parliamentarians on voter registration and democratic engagement projects. Its campaigns and policy proposals were referenced in parliamentary debates, committee evidence, government policy and electoral reform discussions concerning youth participation and electoral registration in the UK.

The original community interest company, Bite The Ballot CIC, was dissolved in 2017.

Founding and early development (2010–2012)

Bite The Ballot was founded in 2010 by Michael Sani and David Hughesman, teachers at Wilmington Enterprise College, Dartford. It began as a youth led classroom project intended to challenge perceptions of political apathy among young people.[2] In 2011, Bite The Ballot worked with the Cabinet Office's Democratic Engagement Team on a pilot scheme designed to encourage voter registration, and also hosted debate events in Parliament with politicians including Lord Roberts and Shaun Bailey.[3][4] Ben Pook was involved since its formation, creating promotional videos with influencers Jamal Edwards, Sam Pepper and Dominique Moore (and remains an associate of Sani as of 2026).[5][6]

In April 2012, Bite The Ballot organised what it described as the UK's first youth voter registration rally, Youth Vote London,[7] at the Ministry of Sound, London in partnership with UpRise, Reprezent radio, the Spirit of London Awards and the Media Trust. It was attended by rapper Tinie Tempah, filmmaker Noel Clarke and actor Ashley Walters.[8] The event sought to combat low voter turnout from the previous general election, where 44% of 18 to 24 year olds participated.[9] The organisation also launched Inspired Impressions, an art competition. The winning entries were displayed at the Houses of Parliament.[10] During this period, Bite The Ballot developed Rock Enrol!, a democratic engagement resource supported by the Cabinet Office.[11] This project expanded into The Basics,[12] an Ofsted recommended political literacy workshop delivered in schools, campuses and community groups.[13]

National expansion (2013–2016)

In 2013, Bite The Ballot launched My Manifesto,[1] a youth policy report intended to gather political recommendations from young people and "inspire [politicians] to see the true value of the youth vote".[14] Developed with the Hansard Society and Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, it sought to increase youth political engagement by presenting policy recommendations based on input from "more than 5,000 young people". Its authors included Eugene Mensah, Charlotte Parsons, Annique Simpson and Symeon Brown.[15] My Manifesto recommendations included greater political, financial and employability education in schools; improved mental health and health education services; expanded apprenticeships and traineeships; discounted public transport fares; measures to address unaffordable housing and homelessness; and initiatives to improve trust between young people and the police.

The report was welcomed by David Cameron, who said Bite The Ballot helped young people "feel empowered to vote”, and by Ed Miliband, who said the project was "timely and important". Nick Clegg called himself a "huge supporter" of the organisation's work. The three main UK wide parties' 2015 manifestos reflected several themes raised in My Manifesto, particularly apprenticeships, youth employment, mental health, housing and transport, although the proposals varied greatly in emphasis.[16][17][18]

In February 2014, the organisation launched the UK's first National Voter Registration Day (NVRD), timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Reform Act 1832.[19][20] Media reports described an increase in voter registration activity during the campaign.[21] Mevan Babakar, Rose Lowe, Peter Lesniak, Scott Craig and Oliver Sidorczuk were involved at this time.[22][23][24][25] According to Bite The Ballot, over 50,000 people registered to vote, "at a cost of 25p per registration, roughly 100 times more cost effective than the Electoral Commission".[26][27] During the campaign, Sani criticised comedian Russell Brand's calls for electoral disengagement, arguing that low youth turnout reflected under registration and lack of political education rather than apathy.[28][29] Sani also said:

Our message to young voters is that if you believe that there's no one worth voting for, spoil your ballot to get your point across. Then you can't be described as the apathetic. You'll be sending a message to [politicians] that you value democracy, but don't believe in them.[30]

In April 2014, Bite The Ballot and 38 Degrees organised a nationwide Join The Vote initiative, which mobilised volunteers to canvass and encourage voter registration ahead of the 2014 local elections and European Parliament election. The organisations estimated that up to 6.5 million voters were entirely missing from the electoral register at the time.[31] Later that year, Bite The Ballot supported the Voter Registration Bill in the House of Lords[32] and launched The Amendment, a campaign intended to improve voter registration and political engagement in Wales via an amendment to the Wales Bill.[33]

In September 2014, Bite The Ballot sought to work more directly with local authorities and electoral registration officers, holding an Educate, Engage and Empower conference on International Democracy Day to discuss youth registration strategies with councils, politicians and civil society partners, including Cabinet Office Minister Lord Wallace[34] and London Youth.[35] It was framed on "attracting, inspiring and registering young voters".[36]

A student-led voter registration drive at the University of Texas at Dallas in the lead up to the 2022 United States elections.
A student-led voter registration drive at the University of Texas at Dallas in the lead up to the 2022 United States elections.

Around this time, local authorities used Cabinet Office grants to contract Bite The Ballot directly. The organisation began to place trained field workers on secondments inside council's electoral services departments.[37][38][39] Operating across Nottingham, Brent, Birmingham, Wiltshire, Cardiff and Cornwall,[40][41][42] the officers ran campus events and classroom workshops.[43][44][45] This structure combined Bite the Ballot's peer to peer youth outreach with council backend registration systems.[46][47][48][49] These Community Engagement Officers were also funded by grants to Bite The Ballot, including from the Barrow Cadbury Trust.[50][51][52] Appointees included and Usaama Kaweesa.[53][54][55]

Ahead of the 2015 UK general election, Bite The Ballot partnered with ITV News and Twitter to organise Leaders Live, a series of live streamed interviews and question and answer sessions with political party leaders.[56][57] Participants were Natalie Bennett, Nigel Farage, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg.[58][59][60][61] David Cameron declined to participate despite initially agreeing to appear, attracting criticism from the organisers.[62][63] Several moments from Leaders Live received press attention, including Farage appearing to contradict UK Independence Party policy on sex and relationships education.[64] In addition, Miliband publicly backed extending voting rights to 16 and 17 year olds,[65][66] Clegg publicly again apologised for the Liberal Democrats' reversal on university tuition fees,[67] and Bennett said drug misuse should be treated as a health issue rather than a criminal matter, calling for parliamentary debate on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.[68]

In early 2015, Bite The Ballot also participated in the Daily Mirror cross sector No Vote No Voice youth voter registration campaign with journalist Ros Wynne Jones.[69] It included a nationwide bus tour and received endorsements from actor Ricky Tomlinson and cast members of The Only Way Is Essex.[70][71]

In 2015, Bite The Ballot launched Verto, a digital voting advice application and political engagement platform developed and assessed with the think tank Demos, the Political Studies Association and academic researchers, Emily Rainsford and Alex Dobson.[72] The platform encouraged users to compare their political views with those of parties and other participants.[73] A London focused version, Verto.London, was later released during the 2016 London mayoral election campaign.[74]

Later, in April 2016, Bite The Ballot participated in a youth town hall event in London with United States President Barack Obama during his final official visit to the UK. Obama urged young attendees to reject political pessimism and engage with democratic participation and social change, and praised Sani personally:[75][76]

You're young leaders, like Michael Sani, who's here today. Michael was inspired by America's Rock the Vote voter registration initiative, so he started his own Bite The Ballot initiative here in the UK. He spent time in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he learned about our civil rights movement [and he] said: "I have a new understanding of the meaning of perseverance, resilience and delayed gratification; about fighting for change you may not live to see, but your children will live to see".[77][78]

Bite The Ballot also worked with organisations including Operation Black Vote, UK Youth, Gingerbread, Mencap and Muscular Dystrophy UK to address under registration among young, disabled and minority voters. It also supported an Uber and Whizz Kidz initiative providing free wheelchair accessible transport to polling stations during local elections.[79]

EU referendum and Turn Up campaign

Ahead of the 2016 UK European Union membership referendum,[80] Bite The Ballot worked with HOPE not hate to launch the Turn Up voter registration campaign.[81][82][83] The campaign promoted voter registration through partnerships with digital platforms and companies, including Twitter, Tinder, Uber and Deliveroo.[84][85] Prime Minister David Cameron publicly backed efforts to encourage voter registration among younger voters in the days before the referendum registration deadline.[86][87] Despite Cameron's late support, he was criticised for accelerating individual electoral registration reforms against Electoral Commission advice — which had also reported a fall of 40% in the number of young ‘attainers' in December 2015[88] — risking the disenfranchisement of up to 1.9 million voters, many of them younger and more transient electors.[89][90] In addition, commentators speculated that the decision to extend the voter registration deadline by 48 hours was "undoubtedly aimed at young people".

During the EU referendum campaign, Bite The Ballot also organised In Out Live,[91] a live streamed debate featuring media personalities and campaigners, including YouTuber David Vujanic, activist Bob Geldof and commentator Katie Hopkins.[92][93] The event was independently fact checked by Full Fact.[94]

In 2016, Bite The Ballot also coordinated an all party open letter signed by more than 40 current and former party leaders — including Lord Kinnock, Tim Farron, Caroline Lucas, Lord Bourne, Leanne Wood and Natalie Bennett — calling for stronger citizenship and democratic education in schools and colleges.[95]

Later activity and transition (2017–2019)

During the snap 2017 UK general election campaign,[96] Bite The Ballot relaunched Turn Up, participating in youth voter registration campaigns alongside Hope not hate and the National Union of Students.[97][98] During the campaign period, Cabinet Office figures showed that 622,000 people registered to vote in the final 24 hours before the deadline — including approximately 246,000 people under the age of 25.[99]

After this point, the organisation described itself as an international social enterprise specialising in civic and community engagement. According to Bite The Ballot's website, it expanded internationally in 2018 through workshops conducted in Colombia with Mi Sangre and the TAAP Foundation ahead of the Colombian presidential election.[100]

In material published during the 2019 UK general election, Bite The Ballot described the election as its "last election" after a decade of youth engagement campaigning.[101] In a 2022 House of Lords debate on electoral registration, Peers including Lord Kennedy and Baroness Blower regretted the winding up of the organisation.[102]

Campaigns and projects

National Voter Registration Day and Turn Up

Promotion material from the USA campaign, Rock The Vote, which inspired Bite The Ballot’s UK National Voter Registration Day
Promotion material from the USA campaign, Rock The Vote, which inspired Bite The Ballot’s UK National Voter Registration Day

Bite The Ballot launched the UK's first National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) in 2014, inspired by the USA initiative, Rock the Vote.[103][104] Organisers estimated that around 50,000 people registered during the inaugural campaign using a paper based registration form system at the time.[105]

During the NVRD 2015 campaign, Bite The Ballot stated that 441,696 people registered over the course of the week — including approximately 166,000 registrations on 5 February alone.[106][107] Kemmy Imafidon was involved in promoting NVRD 2015,[108][109] which included the projection of a ballot box onto the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben).[110]

In place of a day, Bite The Ballot pursued National Voter Registration Drive, which was a week of activity, over 1—7 February 2016, that involved councils, universities, students' unions and community organisations in registration drives and democratic engagement events across the UK.[111][112][113]

Ahead of the 2016 UK European Union membership referendum, Bite The Ballot partnered with HOPE not hate to launch the Turn Up campaign.[114][115] The organisation stated that more than 1.1 million young people registered to vote during the final week of the referendum registration period — which saw more than 1.8 million registration applications submitted nationally.[116][117]

Turn Up was relaunched during the 2017 UK general election[118][119] as a cross sector youth voter engagement campaign involving artists, media organisations and digital platform partnerships, including Martin Lewis' MoneySavingExpert.[120][121] The 2019 general election was Bite The Ballot's final UK election registration campaign.

Leaders Live

In April 2014, Sani co-founded Bite News Ltd with SB.TV's Jamal Edwards and ITN journalist Natalia Vieira, working with Ben White and Steven Cole.[122][123] The online media venture produced educational current affairs videos — and hosted Leaders Live — before dissolving in April 2017.[124]

Leaders Live was a series of live streamed political interviews and audience question and answer sessions organised by Bite News with ITV News and Twitter.[125] The broadcasts were presented by Rick Edwards and Sani. They incorporated questions submitted through social media, and was filmed in front of a studio audience composed of influencers — such as Hannah Witton and Jazza John[126] — with each interview focused on youth issues.[127][128] The broadcasts were distributed live on the Bite News YouTube channel to track metrics on digital youth civic engagement.[129]

A 2014 blog post criticised the series, arguing that an episode featuring Nigel Farage reflected perceived political bias in the selection and conduct of the audience panel.[130] The post highlighted the inclusion of the then National Union of Students vice president Piers Telemacque, The Guardian linked Myles Dyer, and BBC contributor Mawaan Rizwan, and criticised organisers' claims of neutrality and its use of social media influencers as representatives of youth opinion.[131] Later, research by Matilde Giglio (London School of Economics) in 2025 described the series as an example of digitally mediated youth political participation, arguing that its reliance on influencers and highly connected users created a "new media elite".[132] However, research by Tomoaki Miyazaki (University College London) in 2020, which examined Bite The Ballot's use of peer to peer digital engagement, identified its methods as an "effective, unthreatening [and] promising” example of online civic mobilisation among younger voters.[133]

Verto and Verto.London

Verto was launched in 2015 with CTI Digital, and later relaunched as Verto.London in 2016, as was a digital voting advice application.[134] It combined political information, survey questions and video content and aimed to encourage political participation among younger audiences. It generated substantial impact, engaging over 450,000 users during the 2015 UK general election, with statistics showing that 61% of users who were not originally planning to vote "changed their minds" after using the application.[135] The platform was subsequently adapted for the 2016 UK European Union membership referendum, utilising a swipe to vote mechanism that engaged over 350,000 unique users.[136] This architecture prompted an integration with Tinder — as covered by WIRED[137] — where Bite The Ballot helped educate millennial voters ahead of the registration deadline.

Rock Enrol! and The Basics

Rock Enrol! was developed with the Cabinet Office as a democratic engagement resource intended to encourage voter registration among young people.[138] Bite The Ballot later developed The Basics as a workshop based political literacy resource for use in schools, colleges, students' unions and community settings. Following the roll out of The Basics, the tool was evaluated by Ofsted, which subsequently recommended the materials to secondary schools across the UK as a best practice resource.[139][140]

DeCafe

As part of Turn Up in 2017, Bite The Ballot partnered with Starbucks to run Democracy Cafes ("DeCafe") events across London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Sheffield, Belfast and Edinburgh ahead of the general election.[141] The partnership aimed to encourage political discussion and voter registration among under-25s by recreating the role of historic coffee houses as spaces for public debate. The organisers cited research suggesting that 18–24 year olds were significantly more likely than the wider population to search online for information about the election. Ten events were held in Starbucks stores, and the organisers expected hundreds of young people to participate.[142][143]

Policy and advocacy work

Bite The Ballot's campaigns and policy proposals were often referenced in parliamentary debate concerning youth democratic participation and voter registration.[144] Between 2010 and 2022, the organisation was cited in Commons and Lords debates, written answers and committee evidence — with UK government ministers referring to its role in voter registration campaigns, political literacy initiatives and democratic outreach. Its recommendations on school based and automatic voter registration were also discussed through APPGs, committee inquiries and parliamentary debates concerning electoral participation.

For example, in April 2014, Sani and (Policy Coordinator) Oliver Sidorczuk gave evidence to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee during its inquiry into voter engagement.[145] They advocated for a Northern Ireland-style schools initiative to increase youth voter registration levels which, according to Chris Ruane, had "enabled the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland to register 50% of [Northern Ireland's] total eligible youth population".[146] Two months later, Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan announced that a Labour government would introduce compulsory electoral registration drives in schools and colleges, reflecting proposals advanced by Bite The Ballot.[147] It schools proposal was echoed in parliamentary debates by MPs Stephen Metcalfe, Susan Elan Jones, Stephen Twigg and Lord Lexden.[148][149][150][151]

Voter Registration Bill and advocacy in Wales

Lord Roberts of Llandudno, Bite The Ballot’s honorary president
Lord Roberts of Llandudno, Bite The Ballot’s honorary president

During the transition to individual electoral registration ahead of the 2015 UK general election, "more than one million voters" were reported to have dropped off the electoral roll, with the sharpest declines among students and young people.[152][153][154] At the time, Bite The Ballot was highlighted as working to counter falling registration rates and improve youth democratic participation.[155] In 2014, Bite The Ballot supported the Voter Registration Bill in the House of Lords, introduced by its honorary president Lord Roberts (pictured).[156] The bill proposed automatic voter registration via passport and driving licence applications — similar to the USA National Voter Registration Act 1993 motor voter scheme — alongside school based initiatives.[157] Bite The Ballot also ran The Amendment campaign, supporting a similar amendment to the Wales Bill 2014. This was led by Lord Roberts, and supported by Baroness Grey Thompson, Baroness Morgan and Lord Tyler.[158] It proposed adding data sharing tick boxes to online government platforms — allowing simultaneous voter and organ donor registration — and placing duties on electoral registration officers to run sessions in schools.[159]

In September 2014, the Senedd voted in favour of The Amendment proposal. As electoral policy was a reserved matter for Westminster, activists used this mandate to petition Westminster and push for a UK wide policy. The campaign secured political support in Wales, including the passing of named day motion in February 2015,[160][161] cross party statements of opinion endorsing NVRD,[162][163][164] and cooperation with the Senedd Commission for the Welsh Government's Wales 2016 registration drive.[165] In the 2020s, the British Election Study and other academics reported that the transition to individual electoral registration had increased registration volatility, causing higher drop off rates during the 2014–2016 transition, particularly among younger, private renters.[166][167] Neither the Voter Registration Bill nor the Wales Bill amendment were supported by the Coalition government in Westminster, and concerns about under registration among younger voters remained unresolved by 2016. The Electoral Commission report, The December 2015 electoral registers in Great Britain, estimated that 7.5 million eligible voters were either missing from the register or incorrectly registered, "with 276,185 attainers on the December 2015 parliamentary registers, representing a fall of 40% in the number of registered attainers since February/March 2014".[168][169]

APPGs on Voter Registration and Democratic Participation

Bite The Ballot acted as secretariat to the APPG on Voter Registration, working with Chris Ruane, Lord Kennedy and others on proposals to reform UK electoral registration.[170] The organisation later acted as secretariat for the APPG on Democratic Participation, working with Chloe Smith, Baroness Morgan and Andrew Bowie and others.[171] Across both APPGs, it coordinated cross party parliamentary discussions on electoral reform, youth engagement and democratic participation.

In 2015, the Voter Registration APPG submitted evidence to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee inquiry on voter engagement, supporting reforms including school and college registration drives, automatic and same day registration, the role of NVRD, and expanded citizenship education.[172] In the same year, NVRD also received parliamentary backing through early day motion 678,[173] co-sponsored by Chloe Smith, Alasdair McDonnell and Naomi Long. In 2016, Bite The Ballot, Toby James and members of the Democratic Engagement APPG coordinated an open letter that warned of a "silent, growing crisis" in voter registration, called for similar reforms.[174]

Missing Millions report

Bite The Ballot was associated with the 2016 report Getting the Missing Millions on to the Electoral Register, produced for the APPG on Democratic Participation by academic Toby James (University of East Anglia), Kenny Imafidon (ClearView Research) and Oliver Sidorczuk and Daniel McGrath (Bite The Ballot).[175] The report argued that millions of eligible voters were missing from the electoral register. Its proposed reforms included integrating voter registration into university enrolment, expanding citizenship and political literacy education, more effective data sharing between public bodies, and forms of automatic or assisted registration.

Several recommendations were later reflected in government legislation and electoral modernisation policies. These included a provision in the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 making student registration easier, the creation of National Democracy Week, Electoral Commission feasibility studies on automatic voter registration — which has transitioned into formal implementation across the UK, as of May 2026[176][177][178] — and reforms to electoral canvassing and data sharing processes. The Greater London Authority also referenced the report in support of political literacy initiatives in schools, and the Mayor of London later supported London Voter Registration Week.[179]

A second report published in 2019, Missing Millions Still Missing, argued that progress had been made but maintained that millions of eligible voters remained unregistered — particularly among younger age groups. The report cited continuing problems including under registration, administrative barriers and voters being turned away from polling stations.[180] In the same year, Sani gave evidence to a House of Lords committee examining the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013.[181] He suggested that individual electoral registration was poorly implemented — leaving many young people and other under registered groups excluded — and called for government signposting, greater data sharing, a central electoral register, and carefully piloted automatic voter registration; rather than prioritising voter ID.[182] Earlier, during its 2016 EU referendum registration efforts, Bite The Ballot also promoted public guidance on the UK's online voter registration system, clarifying that applicants could register without providing a National Insurance number (if their identity could be verified by local authorities).[183]

Citizenship education and democratic participation

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, a supporter of Bite The Ballot’s campaigns
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, a supporter of Bite The Ballot’s campaigns

Bite The Ballot campaigned for expanded citizenship education, political literacy and democratic participation through programmes such as The Basics. Its work was linked to the APPG on Democratic Participation, Royal Holloway academic James Weinberg, and organisations including the National Citizen Service (NCS), Association for Citizenship Teaching, British Youth Council and Local Government Association.[184][185] Parliamentary debates and reports involving Lord Bird, Baroness Royall and members of the House of Lords committee on citizenship and civic engagement referenced Bite The Ballot's democratic engagement work,[186][187] including the use of The Basics in the NCS's citizenship sessions.[188]

Research and youth engagement partnerships

Bite The Ballot attended a No 10 roundtable with Prime Minister Theresa May on 10 October 2017 to support the launch of the Race Disparity Audit — which was steered by Operation Black Vote's Simon Woolley — alongside other education and community organisations.[189] Later, in 2019, Bite The Ballot worked with Royal Holloway and the London Sustainable Development Commission on research examining the priorities of young Londoners in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The resulting report argued that young people lacked sufficient opportunities to engage with political decision makers and influence policy.[190]

Reception and impact

Jamal Edwards, Bite The Ballot ambassador
Jamal Edwards, Bite The Ballot ambassador

Bite The Ballot received media coverage from outlets including BBC News, ITV News, The Guardian, The Independent, Sky News and New Statesman for its voter registration campaigns and youth engagement initiatives.[191][192][193] The organisation was also associated with media personalities and online creators including SB.TV founder, and Bite The Ballot ambassador, Jamal Edwards — plus broadcaster Rick Edwards, presenter Laura Whitmore and singer Eliza Doolittle.[194][195][196]

In 2014, Bite The Ballot received a European Charlemagne Youth Prize for its Inspired Impressions art project.[197] In 2015, it received the Political Studies Association Democratic Innovation Award. The 2013 winners were David Cameron and Alex Salmond.[198] Research by Bite The Ballot and Toby James received an Economic and Social Research Council Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Award in 2018.[199] Praise was also received from politicians and ministers.[200]

Legacy and influence

Bite The Ballot is regarded as part of a wider generation of youth focused democratic engagement groups that emerged in the UK during the 2010s. Its campaigns combined voter registration, political literacy, influencer partnerships and digital mobilisation aimed primarily at younger and under represented voters. It has been identified as an early adopter of social media driven and gamified civic engagement strategies aimed at younger people.[201]

Its 2016 Missing Millions report advocated reforms including student voter registration through university enrolment, expanded political education, modernised electoral registration systems and proposed forms of assisted or automatic voter registration. The Minister for the Constitution Chris Skidmore said, at its launch, that it would "go down in history as helping to evolve the UK's electoral registration system".[202] Several recommendations were later reflected in law and in electoral modernisation policy. It was later described as a "road map for voter registration reform" by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.[203] Bite The Ballot also contributed to broader debates during the 2010s concerning votes at 16, democratic participation and civic education in Britain.[204]

In 2023, the National Union of Students relaunched the Turn Up voter registration and voter ID campaign with the British Youth Council and Generation Rent.[205] Beyond this, other initiatives once associated with Bite The Ballot have been adapted by other organisations. NVRD, first launched by Bite The Ballot in 2014, has been subsequently organised by My Life My Say, led by Mete Coban.[206][207][208] The organisation's DeCafe model may also be compared with a democracy cafe project run by My Life My Say.[209] Similarly, Bite The Ballot's advocacy around political literacy and democratic participation has been pursued by the APPG on Political and Media Literacy, which Shout Out UK serves as secretariat.[210]

Bite The Ballot CIC (07421634) was incorporated on 28 October 2010 and dissolved on 27 June 2017, according to Companies House records. Play Verto Global Ltd (09474024), incorporated in 2015, remained active as of 2026.[211][212] The company was previously known as BIT3 Ltd and BTB Group Ltd. Play Verto offers gamified platforms which use interactive micro surveys to gather social impact insights. Sani, its director, continues to advocate for greater use of gamified tools in democratic engagement.[213][214]

See also

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