Election hopefuls can’t find voters

Tuesday 1st April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

ELECTION candidates are having a hard time on the streets. But it is not just the public grilling that they are facing – it is finding electors’ houses in the first place.

And even when they have succeeded in that, some have discovered the listed occupants have moved or died. Each candidate is issued with a ‘street walk’ list that should help plot a sensible route for them to follow while out canvassing.

It is compiled by the Home Department but, instead of following postal routes, this year’s first release went in postcode order – but houses with consecutive postcodes can be in different roads. Having received complaints, the department reissued it on Saturday with roads listed alphabetically. But according to some candidates that has not really helped.

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