division_name: European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill
motion: <p class="" pid=".510.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid=".510.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The Bill's purpose is to allow continuation of the Government's successful programme of piloting innovative electoral processes&#8212;including all-postal voting, electronic voting and other electoral innovations&#8212;at the forthcoming European elections and, where they are held, at local elections next year. Piloting new voting mechanisms is not done for its own sake. It is innovation for a purpose: to engage the maximum number of voters in the elections, and to make their participation more easy and convenient.</p>
  
  <p pid=".603.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the Bill be now read a Second time:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid=".603.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 306, Noes 172.</p>