Running electoral registration - England

Supply of the marked register and marked absent voting lists

Supply of the marked register and marked absent voting lists

If requested, relevant parts of the marked copy of the register of electors and any notices amending it, plus the marked copies of the list of postal voters, the list of proxies, and the list of proxy postal voters, must be supplied to specified persons on payment of a prescribed fee.1
 
The request must be made in writing and must specify:2

  • which of the marked register or lists (or relevant parts of them) are requested;
  • whether printed or data copies are requested; and
  • the purpose for which the data will be used and why the supply of the full data would not be sufficient to achieve that purpose

The cost of a marked document is prescribed. The charge for data copies is £10 plus £1 per 1,000 entries or part thereof, and for printed copies it is £10 plus £2 per 1,000 entries or part thereof.3
 
You must supply the requested copies provided the relevant fee is paid and you are satisfied that the requestor needs to see the marks on the marked register or lists in order to achieve the purpose for which it is requested.4  When you supply the marked register, you should remind the recipient that the data should be securely destroyed once the purpose for which it has been supplied has finished.
 

Last updated: 12 October 2020