Recommendation Necessary improvements to the Voter Register, paragraph 1 (Voter Registration) Sri Lanka 2005
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The fundamental deficiencies in the voter registration system should be addressed as a matter of urgency. This can be implemented by either using census data (1) or developing the active system of registration currently in use. (1) Introducing a passive system of registration based on census data: the data is in electronic form and is currently collected every 10 years. To provide an adequate basis for a voter list, the census would need to be rolling or updated every year. (2) If the system of an on-going active registration is maintained, rather than creating an entirely new register each year, the one from the previous year should be used as a basis from which adjustments (additions/deletions) are made.
