Labour call for action on electoral register ‘mess’

THE Labour Party has urged a series of measures to address what it calls the “mess” of the electoral register after discovering one of its own TDs was deleted from the records.

Deputy Jack Wall was among an estimated 600,000 people removed from the register in recent weeks as the Government attempts to eradicate duplications and update voting records.

Labour leader Pat Rabbitte said, however, that many of the wrong people — including his Dáil colleague in Kildare — had been removed in recent weeks simply because they failed to meet a deadline to confirm their inclusion.