VOTER registration forms are going out to every household over the next week to remind Islanders to get on the electoral roll before the elections.

The forms are being sent out as part of the Privileges and Procedures Committee’s £30,000 voter registration drive. Privileges chairman Derek Gray, the Constable of St Clement (pictured), said that the forms should be dropping through the letterbox of every Island household some time between tomorrow and next Wednesday.

He said: ‘This leaflet is the latest in a series of initiatives to engage the public with the forthcoming elections.
‘We have received very good feedback from the public so far and are optimistic that our efforts to raise awareness will be successful and many more people will be eligible to vote this autumn.’

During the 2005 elections, just 23,157 out of around 88,200 Islanders cast a vote in the Senatorial poll – or just over one-in-four of the population. This year’s campaign to increase Jersey’s turnout follows the efforts before the last election that saw another 2,000 voters go to the polls.