Electoral register and email addresses

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Mid Ulster District Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Open Rights Group

Dear Mid Ulster District Council,

I am interested to know whether:

(a) You hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral Register, and if so,

(b) how many emails you hold in the Electoral Register;

(c) What the source or sources of these emails is;

(d) Whether you have included all or some portion of these emails as part of the datasets you gave to election candidates at the 2019 General Election;

(e) If so, how many emails were supplied;

(f) Whether you supplied email details in other prior elections.

Yours faithfully,

Jim Killock
Open Rights Group

Mid Ulster Info, Mid Ulster District Council

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Dear Mr John Killock

Thank you for your information request, submitted with Mid Ulster District
Council under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act)
on 09/12/2019for provision of information regarding holding of the
electoral register and email addresses held.  The council has considered
your request and responds as detailed.

The Council has considered your request and responds to confirm that it
does hold the requested information or the information to which your
request relates. The Council however refers you to the Electoral Office
for Northern Ireland which maintains the Electoral Roll regionally for all
of Northern Ireland. The Electoral Office can be contacted as follows:

[1]http://www.eoni.org.uk/

[2]http://www.eoni.org.uk/Utility/Contact-Us

I hope this is of assistance. However, under the Act, if you are not happy
with the way in which your request has been handled, you have the right to
ask for an internal review. This review, should be requested within 2
months of the date of this response and should be sent to:

Chief Executive
Mid Ulster District Council
Dungannon Office
Circular Road
DUNGANNON BT71 6DT

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you can
ask the Information Commissioner for a decision on whether the Council has
complied with its responsibilities under the Act. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at:

The Information Commissioner’s Office
3rd Floor
14 Cromac Place
BELFAST BT7 2JB

If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact
me.

Yours Sincerely

Philip Moffett

Head of Democratic Services

Mid Ulster District Council

Tel: 03000 132 132

From: Open Rights Group <[FOI #626064 email]>
Sent: 09 December 2019 16:32
To: Mid Ulster Info <[Mid Ulster District Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Electoral register and email
addresses

 

Dear Mid Ulster District Council,

I am interested to know whether:

(a) You hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral Register,
and if so,

(b) how many emails you hold in the Electoral Register;

(c) What the source or sources of these emails is;

(d) Whether you have included all or some portion of these emails as part
of the datasets you gave to election candidates at the 2019 General
Election;

(e) If so, how many emails were supplied;

(f) Whether you supplied email details in other prior elections.

Yours faithfully,

Jim Killock
Open Rights Group

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