The final remarks of the Minister are totally out of order. There are huge discrepancies on the register. Is the Minister aware, from the most recent election, of the alarming lack of professionalism in compiling the register? Because the election was so drawn out on that occasion one could do a tally of who was present. In my constituency the number of mistakes was not less than 2,000 and could have been as high as 4,000 or 5,000, with whole families missing from the register. The hit and miss system in operation at present is not good enough.
I feel sorry for anybody who might lose an election by a couple of hundred or a couple of dozen votes. If the register was compiled as it should be such people might not lose an election. I appreciate many improvements have been made such as allowing one's name to be added to the register up to two weeks before an election, but the compilation of the register is still grossly inefficient. There are excellent enumerators who do their job properly, but many are inefficient and serious mistakes are made, causing people to lose elections.