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Registering to vote is about to become much, much easier for Northern Ireland’s millions of native Ulster-Scots (that’s Ulstèr-Scotch) speakers with the new simplified Electoral Registration Form.

Don’t worry the money wasn’t completely wasted the forms were also translated into more useful languages. In total there are 9 versions. These include Cantonese, English, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Polish and Ulster Scots.

The BBC says the new form has been awarded the Plain English language crystal mark, which is a campaign to get gobbledygook out of information produced for the public. A quick browse of their site shows there is an unusually high number of Northern Irish organisations on their ‘Approved’ list at the moment.

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