It was a requirement; I would have avoided it otherwise. Why Parliament
made it a requirement, I would not care to speculate!
No, I don't think so except that students have the choice of which
register like anyone else.
I think that their names would appear on the register once we had
provided them. (But that's a memory of discussions some years ago.)
Issues which I had difficult with were mainly round nationality and
hence eligibility. The ERO had not taken these issues into account and
we had to agree some formulation which did not register all our
"overseas" students to vote in UK elections.
But, as I say, this was some years ago. I'm sure that your local ERO,
if they have a University in their patch, could give you chapter and
verse, ditto whoever has to engage with this in each University.
Regards
Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kirsty E Gray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 October 2004 12:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Block registration of students on the
electoral roll
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:31:53 +0100, Jim Whitaker
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I think that those of you in HE will find (those of you in England and
>Wales anyway) that your University/college has a duty to give the
>relevant Electoral Officer the names and details of those students who
>are resident in University owned (managed?) accommodation.
Just a few more thoughts!
Is it definately a requirement to provide names or just 'custom &
practice'? Isn't that treating students like children, not adults? Plus
not all resident students will be eligible to vote in the UK anyway - do
you have to differentiate by nationality?
Has the Robinson case and restricted access version of the ER changed
the position at all?
Even if there is some requirement to provide names / details of resident
students for ERO to follow up - surely not the same as actually
registering them on the ER?
Regards, Kirsty.
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