On 3 June 2015 at 19:11, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote:
>
> > On 3 Jun 2015, at 23:48, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3 June 2015 at 18:42, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> By the way, my understanding is that the practice of generating a
> public
> >>> list of voters who cast ballots, while keeping the nature of their
> votes
> >>> private, is relatively common in election processes in general. In the
> >>> United States, political parties use this information for their "get
> out
> >>> the vote" campaigns so that they know which of their likely supporters
> >> have
> >>> yet to vote.
> >>
> >> In UK political elections I think that would be illegal...{{citation
> >> needed}}
> >>
> >> They certainly exist in Canada, and I'm quite certain they exist in the
> UK
> > as well, because that's how the official poll watchers (or scrutineers,
> as
> > we call them in Canada) know who to "get out" when getting out the
> > vote. They don't get published online, but there is a right to examine
> > the list of individuals who can vote at the office of the local senior
> > election official for a few weeks afterward, and then at the national
> > election office once any challenges have been completed. Of course in
> > places where voting is mandatory, the failure to vote is going to be
> public.
>
> Wow. I'm very far from being an expert on the UK voting system, but my
> understanding is that although the list of who can vote may be made public
> (where voters have agreed to this), who has not yet voted (or, after the
> fact, who has not voted) would never be made public. In the UK, election
> scrutineers would only be involved in reviewing votes that had been cast,
> not who had not voted.
>
>
It occurred to me that there's this really great online reference source
called Wikipedia that's generally pretty accurate when it comes to things
like this, so I looked up "Electoral roll". In the UK, "[a]fter an
election a 'Marked Register' can be inspected, which is a copy of the
register used for the election with a mark by each elector that has
voted."[1]
As I said...while it's generally accurate, sometimes it's incomplete. I
note the absence of any information about Canada there, although it is
fairly close to the UK system as discussed in the article.
Risker/Anne
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_roll#United_Kingdom
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