Votes for the dead – but not for 10 living

Monday 7th April 2008, 2:30PM BST.

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after it emerged that around 10 people who had signed up for the electoral roll will not be able to vote.

They had registered online and got their names in on time but are now disenfranchised because of an error at the Home Department.

Some are reportedly furious. The department was attempting to contact them over the weekend. ‘The Home Department wishes to apologise sincerely to those individuals affected by these omissions which, we believe, have been the result of staff changes and human error,’ said a spokesman.

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Pat Lince

April 8, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Headline “How would you feel being left off the Electrol Roll?”I will tell you! I have voted since 1945 so reregistered 4 years ago only to be told at the polling station that i was not on the register.I was thoroughly humiliated in front of a queue…well you forgot dear etc!…I rang the home dept.fuming who admitted their error but said i could not return to vote. Ishall NEVER be returning to vote!

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