People who have died must be removed from the voter roll.
In response, many white Democrats began efforts to reduce voter rolls and turnout.
American officials have insisted that a direct election cannot be held now because there are no voter rolls.
Because there was no voter roll, officials could only guess at what portion of the electorate turned out.
This is sometimes also known as a voter roll.
Bush campaign officials said they still wanted to check voter rolls to follow up on people who changed registration from one county to another.
At issue are the paper ballots filled out by people whose names do not appear on the voter rolls.
There was no problem: She saw her name on the voter rolls.
City officials hoped that the effort would swell voter rolls by at least 500,000.
They were being used for the first time by voters whose names did not appear on official voter rolls.