{"id":7026,"date":"2011-08-04T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2011-08-04T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:41:04","slug":"the-great-castle-point-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/the-great-castle-point-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Castle Point Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Ware-Lane has posted some rather interesting figures about the number of people on the electoral roll in different parts of Essex.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year the <a href=\"http:\/\/warelane.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/03\/a-curious-decline-southends-electorate\/\">number of people registered to vote in Rochford District<\/a> seems to have gone up by 266 &#8211; nothing odd about that.<\/p>\n<p>But in Castle Point, <a href=\"http:\/\/warelane.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/04\/castle-points-decline-exodus-or-ghostbusting\/\">the number seems to have gone <em>down<\/em> <\/a>&#8211;  by 3,127.  <\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s going on?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Julian puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Something curious has happened here. It may be that there has been a new method introduced for registering, or recording the registration, of electors. It may be that the census has had an impact. It may be that the checking of registrations has become stricter. It could be that people have left or died and not been replaced. Whatever, it is curious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Ware-Lane has posted some rather interesting figures about the number of people on the electoral roll in different parts of Essex. In the past year the number of people registered to vote in Rochford District seems to have gone up by 266 &#8211; nothing odd about that. 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