Electoral Registers

The Elector Selector

I have looked at the electoral registers that cover a housing
estate in Sunderland, the registers examined are from 1950 to
1970 all of these registers contain error numbers not many but the way, (or where) these numbers have been placed should cause anyone concern. On their own the numbers might appear to be common error, I fear that this is not the
case. Some small groups of numbers run in reverse order.
Sometimes the same person gets a wrong electoral number more than once in the space of a few years, if there were
thousands of wrong numbers this might be understandable
but some years there's only two or three wrong numbers from totals of about four to seven thousand entries. for a time the housing estate was covered by two separate electoral wards
both these wards have error numbers placed between the same two pairs of electoral numbers. Four years in particular
give their game away 1958 to 1961. in the year of 1958 in
one half of the estate number 3355 is placed in between
5354 and 5356 and in the other half number 5155 is placed between the same two numbers 5354 und 5356. It goes on, in the same year, number 5878 is above a wrong number in one part of the estate whilst in the other part number 5878 IS the inserted wrong number.The case is the same for the other years. also some of the same placed wrong numbers are used year after year usually for a maximum of about five years except for number 5878 where it remains for seven years wedged in between 5777 and 5779 only the name alongside it changes think it's difficult to wangle a name next to a number?, it isn't. just miss out all of the odd house door numbers in a road or two, or one year have ascending door numbers then the next year descending door numbers, and any way the streets don't run alphabetically so a simple case of one two miss a few ninety nine one hundred and it could be you.