"A large software company whose shareholders include Brexiter & fmr Conservative Cabinet minister Peter Lilley has been HANDED a lucrative contract by UK Cabinet Office -WITHOUT competitive tendering -to revamp management of UK electoral register in extraordinary circumstances."

"Though local (councils)are in charge of electoral register, (UK)Govt has responsibility of contract for annual national canvas of people ENTITLED to vote. Idox Software Ltd was given £1.7 million contract for its revamp just in advance of purdah imposed for 2019 General Election

."..& before new regulations had come into force that will allow Idox to make major software changes to compilation of the new electoral register.(purdah is period in which politically-sensitive decisions/announcements cannot be made, in run-up to an election) Byline Times

"Until he resigned his directorship in 2018, Peter Lilley, ardent Eurosceptic & member of Conservative European Research Group (ERG), was also director of a company with contracts that covered the COUNTING of the 2016 EU Referendum." ByLineTimes

"Idox is also approaching a private MONONPOLY in providing electoral services to local councils. By expanding its contracts & buying out rivals such as Halarose, Strand & Opt2Vote, IDOX states that 52% of UK is covered by its electoral management system solution." ByLineTimes

"IDOX's interactive voter response (eCanvass) has been used to register one million people, & it has trained 75,000 polling station STAFF. The new contract awarded by UK Cabinet Office will enhance its position still further..." ByLineTimes.

"IDOX also data-matches information held on millions of people by UK Department for Work & Pensions with local authorities, to draw up the new electoral management system. This new trawl appears to be to find people not on the electoral register, & add them in future registers."

"IDOX will set up the software for future canvassing of ALL VOTERS voters in England, Wales and Scotland, with a target date of completing this June 2020. The extraordinary part of the new contract is how it is being RUSHED THROUGH by the (UK) Government" ByLineTimes.

"UKGov policy to reform canvassing of electoral register, was only announced as Johnson became PM-tho' Cabinet Office began reform in 2015. Idox was awarded £1.7m contract 25 Oct2019, first phase begun on 1 Nov, four days BEFORE legislation to enable it was written!!"

"This first IDOX phase was complete by beginning December, two weeks BEFORE General Election, even though the legislation did not come into force until END of December, data collection a "Top priority" for Dominic Cummings." ByLineTimes

"Around the same time as the annual canvas was announced, leaked memos published by Buzzfeed News revealed that Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings was insisting that UK Cabinet Office collected data from all government digital services as a “top priority”. ByLineTimes

"IDOX contract is one of three awarded- with NO competitive tendering- for an exercise to reform annual canvassing of people entitled to vote. Each (council) may choose which firm it wishes to work with, & data controller remains with each council electoral registration officer"

"When put to UKCabinet Office that award of such large contracts breached EU rules stipulating that construction & works tenders above £663,450 should be put out to competition, spokesperson said there WERE only three specialist companies in UK, ALL given a contract." ByLineTimes

"We are working with 3 electoral management software (EMS) suppliers to update their systems to implement upcoming changes to annual canvass,” a spokesperson for Cabinet Office told Byline Times. However, the reason so few firms can do this, is that IDOX bought up their RIVALS"

"Earlier this year, IDOX set up a system so it could continue to prosper in event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit at the end of 2020. A statement on its website: “Idox plc delivers its products & services via wholly owned subsidiary companies registered in countries in which it operates."