Can I use the electoral register to look for a lost relative or friend?
Finding a lost friend or relative on the electoral register could be difficult because electoral registration is performed by the local electoral registration office for each area and there is currently no official centralised electoral register that can be searched. If you want to look at the register to try and find a lost friend or relative, there are two versions of the electoral register that you can look at – the full version and the edited version. The full register is used only for elections, preventing and detecting crime and checking applications for credit. The edited register is available for general sale and can be used for commercial activities such as marketing. It is possible to search the edited register using online commercial organisations, but it is not possible to search the full register in this way, as the full registers are only available to view in hard copy at the Electoral Services office.
Finding a lost friend or relative on the electoral register could be difficult because electoral registration is performed by the local election office for each area and there is currently no official centralised electoral register that can be searched. If you want to look at the register to try and find a lost friend or relative, there are two versions of the electoral register that you can look at – the full version and the edited version. The full register is used only for elections, preventing and detecting crime and checking applications for credit. The edited register is available for general sale and can be used for commercial activities such as marketing. It is possible to search the edited register using online commercial organisations, but it is not possible to search the full register in this way, as the full registers are only available to view in hard copy at each local council electoral registration office.
Finding a lost friend or relative on the electoral register could be difficult because electoral registration is performed by the local electoral registration office for each area and there is currently no official centralised electoral register that can be searched. If you want to look at the register to try and find a lost friend or relative, there are two versions of the electoral register that you can look at – the full version and the edited version. The full register is used only for elections, preventing and detecting crime and checking applications for credit. The edited register is available for general sale and can be used for commercial activities such as marketing. It is possible to search the edited register using online commercial organisations, but it is not possible to search the full register in this way, as the full registers are only available to view in hard copy at each local council electoral registration office.
Electoral registration is performed locally by the local electoral registration office for each area and there is currently no official centralised electoral register that can be searched online. It is possible to search the edited register using online commercial organisations, but it is not possible to search the full register in this way, as the full registers are only available to view in hard copy at each local electoral registration office.
