Registration page

The registration page is where people register their interest in an event. We normally recommend that people are given the option of registering by phone as well – this is important to make sure people with weaker digital skills are not excluded from participating.

We briefly describe the key components of the registration page:

Accessible language and function

We need to respect the principle of inclusiveness at every stage of our democratic lottery. Our registration page therefore needs to adhere to high standards of web content accessibility.

Data use

Data protection legislation mandates that people who register are clearly informed about what will happen to their data, for instance via a privacy notice. The ICO give clear guidelines for this.

We need to make sure that people who register are asked to confirm that they consent to their data being used for the purposes of running the democratic lottery.

Determine eligibility

We need to be able to determine if a person is eligible to participate in our assembly. There are often criteria about where a person lives – so we might need their address; also, if an assembly has been commissioned by a particular authority, then we may wish to exclude people who work within that authority, especially if they are involved in the politics of the authority.

Contact information

We’ll need to get in touch with the people who register! Being able to do that in at least two different ways (phone / email) is generally important.

Demographic and attitudinal data

Finally, we ask people a number of questions about their demographics and (possibly) their attitudes. We do this in order to ensure that when we run the selection we obtain a group of assembly members which is both inclusive and representative of the population.

For example, we might ask for a person’s age, gender, ethnicity, disability status, level of education, location, political leanings and so on.