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<p>Under Individual Electoral Registration (IER) applicants provide two personal identifiers
including a national insurance number which are checked against Government records
to help verify the person is who they say they are. As part of the transition to IER
in 2014, 87% of the existing electorate was automatically re-registered under the
new system after being data matched against Government and local authority data. Data
matching continues to be integral to IER, in verifying new applications, but also
locally in identifying and verifying applications from eligible electors. We will
keep under review the scope for data to further improve voter registration.</p>
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