Electoral Administration Reform

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 4:44 pm on 16 June 2010.

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Photo of George Hollingbery George Hollingbery Conservative, Meon Valley 4:44, 16 June 2010

Does the Minister agree that there is also a case for ensuring that the data are stored in the same way by different councils? From our experience of compiling registers for mailings on three different district councils, councils very often store data in completely different ways, which make them astonishingly difficult to use effectively.

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Jason Kitcat
Posted on 30 Jun 2010 11:49 pm (Report this annotation)

Election Markup Language could easily be mandated as the standard for use in electoral register systems without affecting localised control.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Markup_Language