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<p>Individual Electoral Registration (IER) is essential in making the system of electoral
registration more secure and less vulnerable to fraud. 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 where
electors have moved home. The latest figures on electors retained from registers before
IER, broken down to local authority and regional level, are available online:</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>They
show that the number of carry forwards had declined by two thirds between summer 2014
and May 2015. These figures do not take into account of the work of the annual canvass,
which is currently underway, or extra Government funding available to Local Authorities
to target remaining carry forward electors specifically. We expect the number of carry
forward entries to decline further as a result.</p>
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