The change was not entered in the state's electronic voter database, however.

Generally this data undergoes data cleansing and is put into a voter database for use by political campaigns.

The data was part of a centralized voter database, required by Federal law.

By comparing new facial images to those already in the voter database, authorities were able to reduce duplicate registrations.

States decided what information to include, what restrictions to place on the use of their voter database, and how much the database would cost.

The voter database is central to many parts of a campaign:

Personal data frequently included in a voter database:

The use of voter databases has been established in political campaigns from local school board to national elections:

Britain's Labour Party has used a variety of voter databases through the past two decades.

The state has been equally negligent about starting work on a statewide computerized voter database, which must also be in place by 2006.