Electoral register and email addresses

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Open Rights Group

Dear South Somerset 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

Freedom Of Information, South Somerset District Council

Dear Jim
Killock,
I
acknowledge
receipt of
your
Freedom of
Information
request
received on
10/12/2019.
You will
receive a
response
direct
within the
statutory
timescale.
Kind
regards,
The FOI
Team

 

Freedom Of Information, South Somerset District Council

 

With reference to your FOI request regarding the electoral register and
email addresses, I set out below my response to your questions:

 

a)    we do hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral
Register

 

b)    there is no facility within the software to give the number of
emails held

 

c)    from online and paper applications to be added to the register of
electors

 

d)    no email addresses were included in datasets provided to candidates
at the 2019 general election

 

e)    see d. above

 

f)     email addresses have not been supplied at previous elections

 

 

 

 

Dear South Somerset 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.

 

Many Thanks

 

FOI Team