Mori poll to look at States reform

Monday 17th July 2006, 12:00AM BST.

ONE thousand households will be telephoned by Mori researchers over the next three weeks and asked about States reform.

The UK polling organisation have begun a survey expected to cost up to £25,000 focusing on voter registration, voter turn-out and the composition of the States Chamber.

The States Privileges and Procedures Committee have commissioned Mori – who ran a similar poll as part of the Clothier Panel’s research – to gauge public opinion before they start work on electoral and compositional reform.

The 1,000 households will be selected randomly for the survey and Privileges hope to publish the results in September, before lodging firm proposals by November.

Privileges chairman Derek Gray said that if the proposals were approved in principle by the States, they would probably be put before Islanders in Jersey’s first referendum.

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