...Implementing the Data Protection Act has put the online national electoral register a year behind A key government project to allowonline voting risks being seriously delayed due to confusion over implementation of the 1998 Data Protection Act. Plans...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2001/12/20/184435/online-voting-on-hold.htm
... The Government will also consider an intermediate approach which would keep the multiple publication rule but allowonline archives a special status so that publication in them could not form the basis of action after a year has passed from...
http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=10388