Yesterday the chair of the Electoral Commission, Jenny Watson addressed the Annual Conference of the Association of Electoral Administrators in Blackpool.

All good people but all now involved in creating a culture of complacency over the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration.

Voter registration is not an issue to set the public pulse racing but it is at core of our democratic process and also on how we provide representative juries for our legal system.

For most of the last century we have coped with Household registration where a self designated ‘Head of Household' completed the registration forms for everyone resident and eligible to vote.