Mist Rolling In wrote:On another note - the full register is available to anyone to view, if not to take away. This could have been cross checked agains the published register months ago - takes time, but surely worth it?!
Mist Rolling In - just for sake of clarity and only that you may have meant "but not to take away". (as the Register cannot be removed from the Council building) The "full" register is the published register - it is one and the same thing and is the Published Electoral Register as at 1st December 2009 and this represents those who are eligible to vote in the area. The full register is used for elections, preventing and detecting crime and checking applications for credit (they can only use the full Electoral Register for credit referencing and for the prevention of financial crime)
The edited register is available for general sale and can be used for commercial activities such as marketing and contains the names and addresses of people who have chosen not to opt out of appearing on the Edited Register. This again is only representative of the register as at 1st December 2010.
The Electoral Register is now a rolling register and Monthly updates are sent to those who are entitled to these (monthly updates to the Edited Register are not available)
Around 20% of the 6000 odd Electors in South Kintyre do not appear on the Edited Register but MACC confirmed that they sat in the Burnett Building and went through the Full Register to pick these up. Whether this was done in the past or now is irrelevant - the fact they took the time to do this shows just how serious they are about their community ballot.
On another note, there is an interesting piece on the buy out in the For Argyll website at
http://forargyll.com/2010/05/are-establ ... y-buy-out/
