Parliamentary Registrar Randy Scott said his office plans on hiring staff to keep track of the electoral roll’s accuracy.Ms Scott said the Registrar has been without scrutineers, as the officers are known, for the last three years.He said annual requests to the two main political parties for recommendations on scrutineers had been “thwarted” in recent years, with no responses received.However, the latest amendments to the law will allow his office to go ahead and hire officers — which is planned for after the impending general election.The Registrar spoke in response to a story in The Royal Gazette on the discovery of voters on the registry whose Sonesta Drive address was the site of a demolished hotel, and therefore incorrect.Mr Scott said: “Our offices received an objection to the registrations of three individuals who remained registered at Sonesta Drive. As many may recall, the premises at Sonesta Drive were used for temporary housing on the departure of the Sonesta Hotel. In recent years those living there have left and I understand that the building has since been demolished.”There are four permanent staff at the Registrar’s office, he said, who “rely upon the scrutineers in instances such as the Sonesta property, to advise our offices that the building has been demolished and that it is likely that the voters registered at this address no longer reside there”.In fact, in the wording of the law, Registrar staff must be satisfied that the persons registered at a location “do not ‘ordinarily sleep’ at this location”, he explained.“All persons who meet the qualifications for registration are entitled to register and vote, regardless of whether they have a fixed address with an assessment number or not. Such persons cannot and should not be disenfranchised simply because of their personal circumstance,” he said.“These persons, whether sleeping on a bench in Hamilton, frequenting the Salvation Army housing shelter, living on a house boat, or residing in a derelict home, have a right to vote.”