Overview of the Structure Part 1: Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors
14.Part 1 of the Act contains provisions for the establishment, by order made by the Secretary of State, of one or more Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors (CORE) schemes. A CORE scheme would consolidate into a centralised record for the area covered by the scheme, such of the electoral registers and related information maintained by the local electoral registration officers (EROs) in that area as is specified in the scheme.
15.A CORE scheme would be run by a keeper. The keeper, who could be the Electoral Commission, would be designated by the Secretary of State. Whilst the detail of how the scheme would operate would be set out in a scheme order itself, relevant EROs would generally be under a duty to supply the information in their registers, as well as other specified electoral registration information, to the keeper. A keeper would be required to inform relevant EROs of information indicative of duplicate entries. A scheme could permit the keeper to provide electoral registration information to organisations currently entitled to be provided with a copy of electoral registers by EROs under other legislation. The scheme would also govern access to the consolidated record and permit individual electors to access CORE on-line for the purposes of checking and requesting updates to the information held about them.