electoral rolls

[tali122]

before computers ,did electoral roll staff type up the registers or was the typing contracted out to outside typing agencies?, also who checked for name errors? and were registers retyped(a labourious task) fully every year or were the new details(as more people stay rather than move )simply added in?
thx

[saxy_jag]

Companies and organisations had places called typing pools, where dozens of women would sit all day typing all sorts of stuff. They could make copies using carbon paper or, if they needed more, by typing onto a stencil sheet and using it on something like a gestetner duplicator.

All these women did was type, and they dreamed of becoming supervisors or even secretaries, if they had the right skills.

[Siamsal]

They were printed, weren't they. Like telephone directories. I remember seeing one in our local Post Office when I was a kid.

[dzug]

The use of agencies on a large scale is a fairly recent development. Companies and local authorities liked to do as much as they could in-house and rarely contracted work out.