US electoral rolls deeply flawed

NEW YORK: The US electoral roll has been found out to be faulty which could affect all elections including this year's race for the White House set for November.

This was revealed in a report released by the Pew Center on the States.

The voter registration roll in the United States has been found out to be faulty. One in eight voters registered is invalid or bogus and one in four genuine voters eligible to vote has not been registered. More than 51 million voters have not been registered. More than 1.8 million dead people have been registered as voters.

The report found that there are about 1.8 million dead people listed as active voters. Some 2.8 million people have active registrations in more than one state. And 12 million registrations have errors serious enough to make it unlikely that mailings based on them will reach voters.

"These problems waste taxpayer dollars, undermine voter confidence and fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections," said David Becker, director of election initiatives at the center.

Mr. Becker warned that poor record keeping at the registration stage is not evidence of fraud at polling places. "These bad records are not leading to fraud but could lead to the perception of fraud," he said.