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<p>The Government will use data-matching to confirm the majority of electors on the register and ensure they are automatically enrolled during the transition to individual electoral registration. Trialling of this approach through the confirmation dry run yielded better than anticipated results, highlighting that using a combination of national and local data could lead to an overall average match rate of 85%. In addition, the Government is making registration simpler by enabling online registration, and in June we announced £4.2 million-worth of measures to maximize voter registration ahead of the transition to individual electoral registration.</p> |