One million changes to voter register

THE revised electoral register has undergone one million changes during the process of removing and adding voters’ names, Environment Minister Dick Roche revealed yesterday.

New figures show that around 500,000 names were removed from the register during the process, which oversaw a million changes.

To date, 31 local authorities have returned final electoral register figures which show that in excess of 84,000 names have been added to the register.