Electoral cards returned slowly

Press, 24 October 1980, Page 4

Electoral cards returned slowly

Christchurch people are i returning their electoral-roll revision cards more slowly ; than electoral offices would : appreciate, according to the I Christchurch Central registrar of electors, Mp I. < Douglas. ■ [' Electors had . returnedp more than 60,000 cards in- < the first week since . the cards had been posted to ! addresses in the 11 Christchurch regional seats- but 1 this was only 24 per cent of i the total number of cards : and was slightly dis- < appointing, he said. 1 Cards had been sent to ’ about 300,000 people in : Christchurch electorates, including Rangiora and Ash- 1 burton. These included 1 people whose names ap- ’ peared on the 1978 electoral i

rolls, which were criticised for containing many errors, and people who had enrolled since the 1978 General Election. People "who had not received a revision card should enrol again at a post office. If they did not enrol Or return a revision card their names would be struck from the rolls. People should not put the name of their suburb on their cards but rather the postal-zone number: the electoral computer was programmed to take only the word “Christchurch” and a zone number. Reminder notices would be sent in the.last week of November to .'those- people who had failed to return a revision card.