Electoral Registration

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 20 March 2008.

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Photo of Peter Viggers Peter Viggers Conservative, Gosport 10:30, 20 March 2008

The commission's view is that the registration system in Great Britain does not provide adequate safeguards against fraudulent registration and thus against fraudulent voting. Names can be added to the register by others, and not enough information is collected about those on the register to establish whether they really exist and are really resident at the address in question. Fraudsters can undermine the electoral process by obtaining and casting postal votes using falsely registered names. As its chairman's evidence to the Justice Committee this week indicated, the Electoral Commission is making strong representations to Government. I have not yet heard their response.