” … A drive to recapture the nearly one million voters who went missing from the electoral roll in 2013 starts today. A £2.4m advertising campaign, featuring secretly-shot footage of members of the public flipping out when deprived of basics such as tomato ketchup or the use of a lift, has been designed to make it clear that, unless people sign up by 20 April, they will not be able to vote 17 days later.

It seems like a mad dash. Research carried out last year showed that a quarter of 18 and 19-year-olds, and the same proportion of black people, were unregistered. Last month, the Commission reported that there were 920,000 fewer people on the register in December than expected, mainly students and those who have moved house and failed to register.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jenny-watson-chair-of-the-electoral-commission-the-idea-of-marking-an-x-in-a-box-probably-seems-completely-alien-10109799.html

Well, we know where at least 6,000 of them were – here in East Devon!