voter registry

Official ballot roster

A voter registry is an official database of individuals eligible to vote in a given jurisdiction.

Election officials use it to verify identity and prevent duplicate voting at polling places.

Also called a voter roll or electoral roll: Her name wasn't on the voter registry, so she had to cast a provisional ballot.

Related

precinct · citizenship · eligibility · enrollment · verification · ID · address · district · officials · civic · civic duty · turnout · swing state · deadline · update · records · names · rolls

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Opposites
electoral participation mechanism

voter registryvoter suppression

Tactics discouraging ballot access

disenfranchisement · voting ban · poll tax · literacy test · voter purge

type of population record

voter registrycensus

Official population count

criminal record · birth registry · tax roll · immigration record · jury pool

Family

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