The Opposition United Bermuda Party continued to raise concerns that the voter's list may be inaccurate as MPs debated housekeeping changes to laws governing voting.

The party was careful not to criticise Parliamentary Registrar Sabrina Phillips and only one MP, Michael Dunkley, repeated calls for a wholesale re-registration of voters, which is opposed by the Government and considered to be unnecessary by Government House.

Most UBP MPs called on voters to do their part and update their registrations if they have changed their residences.

And Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons congratulated the Parliamentary Registrar for its campaign to make sure everyone understood the reforms, but said it should be made more explicit that those who move are required to update their registrations.

Mr. Dunkley said the UBP would rather having the country totally re-registered, to avoid voter disappointment on polling day.

He said: "We have not dropped the idea of wholesale re-registration, and it was the best way forward - in our opinion.

"The Government said it was not going to happen.

"The last election was five years ago and many people have forgotten to re-register.

"I think instead of sending out flyers to tell the public where they will vote, it would have been better to send out Parliamentary registration forms and the entire country would have been re-registered."

He said he had found while canvassing that many people had forgotten to register to vote.

"I agree with the PLP that voting is easier with the Internet and the fact that you can now register at any time, but the public are used to the old system when they received a registration form in the mail," he said.

Walter Lister (PLP) said politicians "had a responsibility to help people because we are the ones who go on the doorsteps and we have a lot of information".

But Opposition whip Maxwell Burgess said the responsibility to update registrations was squarely in the hands of the voter.

Shadow Labour Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin agreed and called for changes to the law to allow updates to be done by the Parliamentary Registrar's office with the consent of the voter. And she said some people were registered in two different constituencies.

Government members pointed out that it was now easier to make changes to registrations because voters could go online to update their particulars and check what constituencies they were in.

But the Opposition's Pamela Gordon said she felt that a lot of people were too apathetic or not proactive enough to go online and that a certain amount of confusion should be expected come election day.