16. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 incorporates an additional mechanism for registration purposes (that, nonetheless, does not substitute the registers maintained by each registration office): the Co-ordinated on-line Record of Electors (the CORE scheme). In the words of the General Note appended to the Act, “the CORE scheme is an arrangement whereby a record of information currently held only by several locally based electoral registration officers can be consolidated at one central point”. The CORE scheme is a new tool for consolidating, at one central point, the electoral registration information that several locally based electoral registration officers currently hold. For theUnited Kingdom, it represents an unprecedented attempt of unifying and updating the various local registers. The CORE scheme is to be used for electoral purposes, and additionally for the jury service. However, no orders have been made to establish a CORE scheme.
