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The Electoral Commission has released some figures relating to its drive to get voters registered by tonight's midnight deadline, reports the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones There have been 1.8 million visitors to the aboutmyvote.co.uk website. 41% have been from 18-24 year olds. So far, 375,092 registration forms have been downloaded from the site - of which 13,800 were downloaded by Facebook users. The Electoral Commission teamed up with Facebook to encourage younger voters to register. "Gordon Brown repeatedly delayed and blocked attempts to radically reform Britain's benefits system," reports the HREF="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23826171-gordon-brown-blocked-my-benefit-reforms.do" ID="9999" STYLE="LINK_Inline">London Evening Standard. The claim comes from Lord Freud - Tony Blair's former welfare adviser who now works with the Tories. Lord Freud claims Mr Brown, as chancellor, "growled" when reform proposals were shown to him. "Try as I might, I could not get him to discuss matters of principle," the peer says.
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