GGP Software Drives Electoral Revolution

10 February 2010, 3:43pm

Using specially developed software from GGP Systems UK local authority Tandridge Council is leading the way with a project that is set to transform the electoral process. Giving voters a choice in the way they exercise their vote and helping to reduce electoral fraud the new UK government directive controls the way electors’ details are stored ensuring a consistent standard with prescribed formatting of names, dates of birth and addresses. Using GGP’s advanced Gazetteer Management Software, GGP NGz, Tandridge Council are one of the first to obtain a 100 percent adoption of the new standards maintaining compatibility between their National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and their Electoral Register.

“It has taken an enormous amount of effort, working with Electoral Registration, to achieve this match rate and we have been supported at every step by both the GGP software and the GGP team,” commented Pat Porter, LLPG Custodian at Tandridge District Council. “Although an important milestone this is just another step in the evolution of our gazetteer - the continual flow of information between the NLPG and essential Council databases such as the Electoral Register, supported by GGP, ensures the gazetteer is an evolving resource providing benefit to the Council, citizen and third party stakeholders.”

The NLPG is a modern day Domesday Book for England and Wales that lists and locates more than 32 million residential, business and non-mailing addresses each with a unique property reference number (UPRN) which provides a reference key to join related address records across different datasets such as the electoral register.

GGP NGz software, as used by Tandridge Council, has been specifically developed to ensure a consistent, up to date and accurate base for all property-based information within the organisation. GGP NGz also manages the import and export of data between the local authority databases and the NLPG, the national hub and the complete product suite was one of the first two software solutions to receive accreditation for address data transfer (DTF 7.3) and is fully compliant with BS7666.

Tandridge Council were recently recognised, for the hard work, innovation and commitment in the implementation of the new data directive winning the 2009 Ministry of Justice Exemplar Award for Best Implementation of the Electoral Register Data Standard. The award was presented to Tandridge Council at a ceremony that formed part of the NLPG ‘Underpinning Transformational Government’ conference which took place at the Victoria Park Plaza in London in December 2009.

Contact Prim Maxwell at GGP Systems, tel. +44 (0)20 8686 9887, e-mail: prim@ggpsystems.co.uk, www.ggpsystems.co.uk

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