Police said returning officers became suspicious after the applications did not match up to council or electoral roll records.
Many of its residents are from the UK, with 40, 000 Britons on the electoral roll for Tenerife as a whole.
In other words, a 19th-century-style electoral roll, restricted to older, male property-owners, would have produced a handsome yes for Lisbon.
Frustration with Guernsey politics is turning people off registering on the island's electoral roll, according to the home department's chief officer.
He said the electoral roll team would continue to promote the registration message as widely as possible up until the deadline.
The appeal arose after a serving prisoner, William Smith, had his application to be included on the electoral roll in 2003 rejected.
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Only UK-registered firms and people on the electoral roll can lawfully donate.
Paul Whitfield, who leads the electoral roll team, said many former voters had told his team they would not join the new register.
Now it is trying to clean up the electoral roll: it recently found 52, 000 duplicated entries in a sample of 1.2m registered voters.
When Morocco insisted on padding the electoral roll with 100, 000 suspect names, Polisario withdrew from the registration process altogether, putting the whole peace plan in jeopardy.
As well as winning gold medals Herm was named top of its category for coastal areas with an electoral roll up to 12, 000, in 2002 and 2008.
In 2007, London Mayor Boris Johnson was chosen as Conservative candidate in a contest which was open to all Londoners on the electoral roll who registered on a telephone hotline.
The DWP says it tries to contact the men through a mail shot, based on the electoral roll and departmental records, but admits not all are picked-up by the mailing.
The annual drive to update the electoral roll is getting under way this month with letters being sent out to households, seeking confirmation of existing electors and information on new ones.
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He also said a lower than expected figure on electoral roll registration and a reduction in the number of candidates suggested a lack of an issue big enough to motivate people.
"We should be looking at the way in America they have registered Democrats and registered Republicans on the electoral roll - we should be looking at that here, " Mr Miliband said.
In his letter to the Electoral Commission, Mr Straw said the Sunday Times reporters "were allegedly told that money from foreign investors could be channelled through a company established by the reporters as they were on the UK electoral roll".
If that is not to happen next year in Zimbabwe, independent electoral monitoring organisations need to start gathering information now on all aspects of the election: the voters' roll, intimidation, the use of government funds and facilities, and so on.
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