Steve Justice Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Is it possible to remove your details off this register? I'm of the understanding that it is a legal requirement to fill in the forms, but is it a requirement that your details are accessible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Shit Poster Posted February 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2011 The general position on registration is as follows. Under the Representation of the People Acts, all residents are required to give the Electoral Registration Officer information for the purposes of compiling the register. This is done annually by the sending of a registration form to all households in the area. In effect therefore, it is compulsory to be registered provided the persons concerned are eligible to be registered, by nationally, age and residence at a particular address. Some residents choose to withhold information because they do not wish to be registered. The ERO is entitled to take legal action to secure their details for registration and that is a matter for the ERO to decide. Â The register is a public document, is `published', and kept available for inspection at the Council Offices. There is also an edited register and electors are able to opt out from having their details appear in this version of the register. The full register has restrictions placed on the uses to which the information on it can be put but the edited register has no such restrictions. The full register is supplied to credit reference agencies and certain other statutory bodies, as well as to political parties and elected representatives upon request. It can be used for credit checking, and for guarding against money laundering activities, but cannot be sold for other commercial uses such as sending advertising material by post (except for political campaigning purposes). Â If your details are available online, it is unlikely this is as a result of the use or sale of the register because of the restrictions I have referred to above. Companies such as 192.com do not obtain register details from me and, in fact, I would be unable to supply them with anything other than the edited register. Â http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/remo..._electoral_roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted February 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2011 Just to warn you, if you aint on the register at the address you claim you are living at, your credit rating gets fucked. I had moved into my new property and the electoral roll only gets updated twice a year. I was trying to get a new mobile contract and couldnt pass their bloody credit rating! After investigating it turned out it was because I wasnt on the electoral roll and once it was updated my rating went from FAIR to EXCELLENT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 I have no problem filling in the form and giving the correct details, I just don't want the general public to be able to access my details and find my address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 I think you can ask for your details to be hidden on the electoral roll, so they aren't shared out to anyone who wants to pay for them. Â The fact you actually have to opt out is a fucking disgrace though. Being able to purchase the electoral roll for marketing purposes stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted February 24, 2011 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2011 Just to warn you, if you aint on the register at the address you claim you are living at, your credit rating gets fucked. I had moved into my new property and the electoral roll only gets updated twice a year. I was trying to get a new mobile contract and couldnt pass their bloody credit rating! After investigating it turned out it was because I wasnt on the electoral roll and once it was updated my rating went from FAIR to EXCELLENT. Â Â Had the exact same problem when getting a phone contract. It's just an auto-fail if the address you give them isn't the same as the one where you're registered on the electoral roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Well I've managed to find the answer. I can opt out of the edited electoral register, but it won't take effect until September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted February 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2011 Who you hiding from, brother? Â Here's my guess : Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Not hiding as such, but by the same token would rather not be found. It's a very long, very personal story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted February 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2011 Not wanting to be found...? Â Being.... stalked are you? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 I most certainly hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freaky Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Just to warn you, if you aint on the register at the address you claim you are living at, your credit rating gets fucked. I had moved into my new property and the electoral roll only gets updated twice a year. I was trying to get a new mobile contract and couldnt pass their bloody credit rating! After investigating it turned out it was because I wasnt on the electoral roll and once it was updated my rating went from FAIR to EXCELLENT. Â Â Had the exact same problem when getting a phone contract. It's just an auto-fail if the address you give them isn't the same as the one where you're registered on the electoral roll. Is that a fact? I got two new mobile phone contracts when I was living in Leicester and Wolverhampton even though I was registered to vote in Nottingham. For a while, I was receiving mail at five different addresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted February 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 25, 2011 Most forms ask for every address you've been at in the past two years, which is meant to get round the problem of you having moved since the last time it was updated. If none of the addresses you give match it might be an autofail, but if it's just a case of you moving house, the worst that would happen is that it counts against you (eg, if you move home a lot.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freaky Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Most forms ask for every address you've been at in the past two years, which is meant to get round the problem of you having moved since the last time it was updated. If none of the addresses you give match it might be an autofail, but if it's just a case of you moving house, the worst that would happen is that it counts against you (eg, if you move home a lot.) I do move home a lot. I've lived in 8 different places in the last 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 I've moved 10 times since I was 18, been living in the current address for about 5 years though. So 10 times in 6 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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