Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is leading calls for the registration deadline to be extended 8 June 2016
525,000 people yesterday tried to register to vote in the EU referendum on the last day causing the government website to crash producing the message "504 Gateway Time-out" instead of the online registration form.
The last minute rush came as campaigners from both sides urged those not registered to do so before last night's deadline.
The BBC report that:
According to the government's data website, 525,000 people applied to register to vote during the day - 170,000 were aged 25 to 34, 132,000 under the age of 25 and 100,000 aged 35 to 44.
It also shows that the peak users came at 22:15 BST when 50,711 people were using the service at the same time. There were 26,000 people on the site at 23:55 BST and 20,416 people using the site at 12:01 BST, just after the deadline.
The government's data site does not record whether these users were successful or not in attempting to register to vote. It is also not clear whether these figures include those who got an error message.
A government source has told the BBC they are looking at whether it would be "practical and legal" to find a way of extending the deadline after the midnight cut off.
Not a lot we can gauge by way of voting intentions but it does show the level of last minute decision making going on, and the Undecideds continue to hold the balance of power.
Well, those that are registered at least.
Update:
The Electoral Commission has now called for the deadline to register to vote in the EU referendum to be extended after a last-minute online glitch.
The commission said the government should investigate changing the law, saying "many" people will have been unable to register as a result.
