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17.  The Great Britain registration system does not require any personal identifiers for registration.  The traditional British respect for privacy makes the requirement of personal identifiers problematic. Whilst the Government has enacted legislation on an Identity Card in 2006, this does not automatically imply that it can be used for electoral purposes. Another example of the traditional British mistrust of public use of private information is Section 9 of the Representation of the People Act of 2000, which provides for drawing up of two electoral registers, one (“the full register”) complying with the provisions of the act, and another (“the edited register”) omitting the names and addresses of registered voters who have requested these details not to be  published.[5]