A press release from Colville L. Petty, Supervisor of Elections, identifies this year, 2008, as enumeration year - when enumerators visit homes in each of the seven electoral districts, recording in writing, the name, address and occupation of every person who is qualified to vote for the election of members of  the House of Assembly, due in 2010.

According to Petty, the enumeration exercise will get started in July on a date which will be announced shortly.

Enumerators to  perform the duties of going house to house to record the names of the voters are appointed by the Registration Officers for the electoral districts.

He identified the Registration Officers for this year as:

• Laureen Bryan: Electoral Districts of Island Harbour and
  Sandy Hill
• Lelia Richardson: Electoral District of Valley North
• Alkins Rogers: Electoral Districts of Valley South and West
  End
• Valarie Hodge: Electoral Districts of Road North and Road
  South

The ENUMERATORS who will go from house to house throughout the electoral districts, over a period of three months, are:
 

• Sonia Richardson: Electoral District of Island Harbour
• Chantel Ruan: Electoral District of Sandy Hill
• Sanford Richardson: Electoral District of Valley North
• Evalie Bradley: Electoral District of Valley South
• Francis Barry: Electoral District of Road North
• Elvet Hughes: Electoral District of Road South
• Tricia Richardson: Electoral District of West End
   

The release further states that

1. In the furtherance of their responsibilities, the enumerators will be entering people’s premises during daylight hours. They may enter other than during daylight hours but only with the consent of householders.
    
2. Each enumerator will wear, and prominently display, an enumerator’s badge, provided by the Supervisor of Elections, as evidence of his or her authority to enter a premises for the purpose of registering the names of those person who are qualified to vote.
    
3. Before departing a household the enumerator will leave a copy of the names of those persons whom he or she has recorded, in the enumerator’s index book, as being entitled to vote.
    
4. The Election Registration Regulations provide for political parties to appoint scrutineers to accompany enumerators as they go from house to house. Political parties could do so by applying to the Registration Officers. Applications forms are obtainable at the Electoral Registration Office in the House of Assembly Building.
    
5. All scrutineers shall, on appointment, take an oath or affirmation on a prescribed form. And they must wear a badge provided by the Supervisor of Elections indicating that he or she is a scrutineer.
    
6.  Every enumerator will keep the scrutineers, assigned to his or her electoral district, informed about the times he or she plans to undertake house to house enquiries.
    
7. No scrutineer shall, in the course of accompanying an enumerator, ask any question or make any remark to any householder with a view to ascertaining or to influencing the political views of such householder except that a scrutineer may, on visiting any premises, say, “I represent the . . . party.”