Here is the proof that the Electoral Commission wrote to those MPs whose constituencies did not carry out the required house to house canvassing for the electoral register in 2013. We know from this document that only 6% of councils failed to do this and not only was EDDC one of these councils but it had also not performed these enquiries in 2011 and 2012.
Extract:
“The reasons given by each ERO for not carrying out house-to-house enquiries with all non-responding households are provided within the Commission’s report. The Commission has written specifically to those hon. Members whose ERO(s) have failed to meet the standard and it will soon write to all hon. Members to update them regarding the progress of the transition to IER. This update will include suggested questions which hon. Members may wish to put to their local EROs regarding what practices they follow, and propose to follow in future, in order to keep their electoral registers as complete and accurate as possible.”
Source:
Click to access 6.SPEAKERS-Committee-Electroal-Commission.pdf
East Devon Watch 
I need to make two points here:
1. In the first link, East Devon is not explicitly mentioned as having failed to canvas, but I am assured by Chris Ruane MP that East Devon didn’t and so is presumably one of the 17 additional EROs mentioned.
This means that the East Devon ERO failed to report honestly and declare that he had not undertaken doorstep canvassing during 2013.
2. As we can see from the second link, the document is dated from July 2011 and so relates to the year 2010 – East Devon was not on the list of councils who failed to undertake doorstep canvassing in 2010 as their failure to do this started in 2011. So I don’t think we can use this document as evidence that our MPs know about this.
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