Why do you leave things until the last minute?
by Simon Usborne from on (#1GHVB)
The number of people trying to register to vote in the EU referendum, moments before the deadline, caused the site to crash. Why do some of us procrastinate - and can it ever be helpful?
It's been three years coming, yet on Tuesday night, thousands of us had spent too long chillin and chattin to get registerin for #votin; the government's online voter registration site for the EU referendum crashed as midnight approached, leaving many unsure whether they would have a say on 23 June.
Like a kindly but not disinterested teacher in need of good results, David Cameron has extended the deadline, allowing the mainly youthful (and, he might quietly hope, more EU-friendly) late surge to register. It's safe to assume most of them were aware of the deadline but had just put things off.
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