Proactive release - Prisoner Voting [pdf, 2 MB]
...that it could increase the response rate by using electronic methods to contact people rather than letters. In its report on the 2017 general election the Commission recommended amendments to the data matching provisions in general to include email and phone numbers to improve the response rate. This change would benefit former prisoners who haven’t re-enrolled. However, this would have significant privacy implications and would need to be carefully worked through. The provi...