The two had illegally registered commercial short-term marriages of girls under the age of 18.

Another possible issue is that should Alain Juppé be elected to national office, the Constitutional Council could cancel the election on grounds that Juppé was illegally registered as a voter.

Republican lawyers said they had identified 1,700 felons who had not received clemency yet were illegally registered to vote.

China's Ministry of Commerce notes that "Tongrentang ... and others have had their names illegally registered by other Chinese and overseas manufacturers, resulting in a predicament in exports, multinational exchanges and potential economic losses."

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Soros Foundation, which sponsors several provincial newspapers as well as financing imports of medicine, was illegally registered.

Under New York State election laws, a commissioner of the Board of Elections may challenge the eligibility of a voter who is suspected of having registered illegally.

Rainach said that some 100,000 black voters at the time were illegally registered because they could not interpret the Constitution.

In several districts of Paris, people were allegedly illegally registered on the electoral rolls in an attempt to modify the outcome of elections.

Since January, more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine and almost $24 million have been seized in 15 cars, all illegally registered by workers in the Jamaica office, said James M. Fox, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York.