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Although the Electoral Code reflects a consensus agreement on voter registers, there remain problems with the current articles regulating voter registers. First, the text does not present the process for verifying the accuracy of and correcting voter registers (“updating”) in a chronological order that is based on the first required step of publishing the boundaries of

polling units and the physical locations of voting centres within polling units.[28]  The Code does not sufficiently include these fundamental building blocks in the “updating” process.  The accuracy of voter registers is directly tied to the fundamental building block of the polling unit.  In fact, it is simply impossible to verify the accuracy of the voter registers without the prior establishment of polling unit boundaries, and a voter cannot ascertain correct registration without knowing the boundaries as well.  Regrettably, although the Code recognizes the need to establish polling units (Articles 73, 94, and 95), the Code fails to require the establishment and publication of polling unit boundaries and voting centre locations as a critical first step in verifying the accuracy of voter registers.