I am advised that Labour’s registered supporter sign up page doesn’t have separate billing and ‘delivery’ addresses, a common if not mandatory feature of all online shopping systems. This is one reason why there is an enormous number of failures, allegedly around 50,000. Many people are being rejected because the payments failed (they didn’t supply an accurate billing address), or they’re not on the register (they did supply an accurate billing address but aren’t on the register at that address; this assumes that the Party’s ability to perform this check is error free.) This could have been minimised by recording both addresses or using paypal.
50,000 missing