We notice from the What do they Know website

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/conduct_of_the_may_22_2014_local#outgoing-397991

that EDDC has refused to answer a question about Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) Mark Williams’ evidence to the Commons Constitutional Reform Committee on October 13th about several thousand names apparently missing from EDDC’s latest electoral register.  He told the Committee that he had not “knocked anyone off the electoral register” because, he said:

“…… at the European election if an elector presented themselves to vote and they were not on the developmental register as I call it, the presiding officer would phone up and say, ‘That’s okay, they are on my old register. We will do a clerical error and they can go back on.’”
The implication seemed to be: “Don’t worry about thousands of missing names, they just needed to turn up and they were allowed to vote! “.
On 15th October Sidmouth resident Tony Green put a Freedom of Information request to EDDC asking how many such cases there actually were at the European and local elections last May.
On 4th November EDDC refused to answer because they said EROs are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, and anyway Mr Williams and his team are too busy working on the next election to be bothered with pesky questions concerning precise numbers.
In fact, in the meantime, EDA has learned from a reliable source, that the total number of electors able to vote in May using the procedure above was precisely…..THREE!