In bringing forward by a year the final implementation of electoral registers based entirely on individual registration,the minister for constitutional reform (Letters, 31 July) is overriding strong advice from the Electoral Commission. His claiming 96% accuracy hides the stark fact that the percentage of unconfirmed entries varies by local authority and range: from just over 0% to 23%, and all in areas that will bear at least one meaningful election in May 2016. The absence of vital information approximately unconfirmed voters,the commission wrote, “means that ministers would need to ask parliament to approve an important decision with no reliable information approximately how many redundant entries would be removed from the December 2015 registers and how many otherwise eligible electors would need to re-register individually in order to be able to participate in the 2016 polls”.
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Source: theguardian.com