After numerous false starts under the Ewart Brown administration, debate on a newly drawn electoral map is finally due to go ahead today.

MPs will run the rule over the Constituency Boundaries Commission's document which shakes up constituency borders and threatens to make life tough for a host of sitting Parliamentarians.

The electoral map was redrawn after several areas, particularly St David's, boomed in population to effectively reduce the value of each individual vote.

The new version, which puts a roughly equal number of voters in each seat, was tabled by Dr Brown early in the summer, only for the then-Premier to receive repeated criticism for refusing to get it approved by the House of Assembly so it could be made law.

Dr Brown was accused of deliberately stalling the document because it moves blocks of white voters into several Progressive Labour Party seats, creating an uphill battle for MPs such as Patrice Minors, Dale Butler and Zane DeSilva.

Now both Opposition parties have been told new Premier Paula Cox will push forward with the item at today's House sitting.

During today's debate, the United Bermuda Party is expected to raise concerns that many people are still able to vote in an area where they no longer live because of voter registration problems; leader Kim Swan has called for a complete voter re-registration. Further, the information used to redraw the map came from a ten-year-old Census.

The UBP has also previously called for an overhaul of the Parliamentary Election Act to include an independent electoral commission, fixed-term elections and official guidelines for the Parliamentary Registrar when a voter's registration is challenged.

Bob Richards or John Barritt are likely to lead the UBP's response today, with Shawn Crockwell for the Bermuda Democratic Alliance.

Also today, the Premier will give a second reading to the Statistics Act (2010 Census) Amendment Order, which puts back the deadline for the 2010 Census from August 31 this year to continue to March 31 next year, following the failure to complete the survey this summer.

And Attorney General Michael Scott will go ahead with the Police and Criminal Evidence (Suspension of Commencement of Specified Provisions) Act, which stops certain sections of PACE legislation coming into force.