Ensure your right to vote in next year’s election

This week 130,000 households in the Highlands and Western Isles will
receive the annual voter registration forms.
The register produced from the information provided will be used on 5
May 2011 in the Scottish Parliament election and a potential referendum
on the voting system to be used in Westminster elections.

“Assistance or advice”

Douglas Gillespie, Electoral Registration Officer for the Highlands and
Western Isles, said: “Registering to vote is very simple. The form
which every household receives should be checked, amended where
necessary and returned in the pre-paid envelope. Every year names are
deleted from the register because some households fail to return their
canvass forms. Spending a few minutes now will avoid disappointment
when the election takes place.

If your name is not on the register it can also affect your credit
rating and mobile phone contract. Any elector who would like assistance
or advice should contact my staff using the Freefone number shown on the
form.”

The Freephone number is 0800 393 783.

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