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Following confirmation of the voter’s identity, the next step is usually to check whether the voter has the right to vote at that particular polling station. Such a check is normally done by paper-based voter lists or by digital voter lists, such as e-poll books, local electronic voter registers and/or computers connected to nationwide electronic voter lists, like in Lithuania. However, the problem of voters coming to polling stations without their names being on the voter register, either because they went to the wrong polling station or because the voter lists were in a sorry state, was still reported in a few CoE member states. Given the poor quality of regular voter lists in some countries, supplementary lists might be necessary, but this is far from ideal.