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"The legal framework may provide that the responsibility to register lies either with the individual -- passive voter registration where the individual voter has the responsibility to approach registration authorities to get herself/himself registered -- or with the state -- active voter registration where the state, the EMB or other authorized body sends its official enumerators from house to house to register votes."

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International IDEA: International Electoral Standards: Guidelines for Reviewing the Legal Framework of Elections, pp. 46-47

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International Electoral Standards: Guidelines for Reviewing the Legal Framework of Elections

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A voter list may be reliably established through a variety of acceptable methods, including periodic list, continuous list, or civil registry.