Advantages and evaluation

Advantages of a permanent list of electors

The establishment of a permanent list of electors has numerous advantages.

Among the most significant are:

• a reduction in the cost of preparing lists of electors;
• its use by the three levels of government: provincial, municipal and school board;
• a reduction in the provincial election period to 33 days;
• a better control of the preparation and updating of lists of electors;
• an improvement in the quality of the lists of electors.

Evaluation of the quality of the list of electors

A good way of gauging the quality of the permanent list of electors is to consider the results of the work of the boards of revisors during electoral events. For example, as reflected in the following table, at the time of the general election, the percentage of quality of the permanent list of electors was 98%.

	General election
	1998	2003	2007	2008
Electors entered on the list of electors	5 189 168	5 464 358	5 630 567	5 738 811
Changes to the list of electors	294 064	108 932	91 494	72 190
Quality percentage	94.33%	98.01%	98.38%	98,74%