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Greece: 30,000 Deceased Still on Voting List

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The high abstention rate is not the only problem in Greek elections, but at least the 30,000 dead people still on the voting lists have a valid excuse.
According to the Ministry of Interior, although 70,000 people died between May and December 2013, only 40,000 of them were erased from voting lists because municipalities did not send in the relevant data.
In June 2012, only 63 percent of a total 9,950,000 registered voters actually voted. This year the electorate is 9,890,854 people, of whom 1,129,140 are 71-80 years old, while another 1,092,020 are even older. It is worth mentioning that voting is not obligatory for the over-70s, so many likely won’t.
Moreover, the voting list confirms the fact that women live longer than men. Although male voters exceed females up to 61 years old, when it comes to older ages women voters are more numerous.
The effect on the elections of foreign nationals registered to vote in Greece remains to be seen. As far as the registered foreign citizens from EU are concerned, the constituency of Dodecanese has the highest number of registered non-Greek voters, with 2,341. Chania and Attica prefectures come next with 1,872 and 1,482 registered foreign citizens respectively. However, the percentage is slightly higher in the Cyclades islands, where the foreign citizens number 994 of a total 125,447 voters, although whether or not all are alive remains unclear.

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