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<p>The most recent formal assessment of register quality, based on the 1 December
2015 registers<br>and published in July 2016, found that individual electoral registration
boosted the accuracy of the<br>register by 4 per cent</p><p>Alongside individual registration,
the successful introduction of online registration has transformed<br>the way citizens
can register. It now takes just a few minutes to apply to register and nearly 30<br>million
citizens have taken the opportunity to do so in the last three years. In large part
thanks to<br>online registration, the parliamentary register used for the 2017 general
election was the largest<br>ever at nearly 47 million</p><p>2.9 million applications
were submitted between the calling of the election and the registration<br>deadline
date, with 622,000 applications coming on deadline day itself</p><p>The government
has continued to modernise the registration process and to make it more<br>accessible,
as underscored, for example by recent policy commitments on making it easier for<br>survivors
of domestic abuse to register anonymously.</p>
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