Registration Procedures
Citizens have to fulfill another requirement to vote: they have to be registered in the electoral registrar. Such a requirement is completely instrumental. The electoral registrar is a catalogue within which citizens entitled to vote are included. The inclusion of citizens in such a registrar implies that citizens have met other requirements and are residents of a valid electoral territory.
Electoral laws have to establish adequate and simple mechanisms aimed at promoting the voter’s registrar development. Such a registrar has to be updated. As it has been said, electoral registrars play a fundamental role to generate trust among citizens.
Electoral registration of citizens can be undertaken under three different systems: the creation of a permanent catalogue, the creation of a permanent registrar, the use of civil registrars.
