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<p>Individual electoral registration is essential to tackle electoral fraud and ensure
a clean democratic process. 96% of electors in Great Britain have already transferred
to the new IER registers. As the Electoral Commission has said, many of these retained
entries are likely to be redundant, for example because of electors moving home. The
latest figures on electors yet to be registered, broken down to local authority and
regional level, are available here:</p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0007/190465/IER-May-2015-electoral-registers-data.xlsx"
target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0007/190465/IER-May-2015-electoral-registers-data.xlsx</a></p><p>These
figures do not take into account the annual canvass, which is currently underway,
with extra Government funding available to help Local Authorities contact carry forwards
specifically by the end of the year. We expect the number of carry forward entries
remaining on the register to be reduced substantially as a result of this work.</p>
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