56. The reasons that justified the introduction of tighter controls and requisites to voter registration and absent voting - that, in short, consist of providing several personal identifiers both for individual registration or individual application to vote by post - were the perception of high levels of fraud, the inaccuracy of the registers and the insecurity of postal voting. These reasons motivated the enactment of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 and the ulterior norms (which are exposed more in detail below).