about two point two million votes were lost in two thousand and eight voter registration problems david bakker is the director of elections initiatives at the pew center on the states he says america's nineteenth century paper based a voter registration system has left the nation's registration rolls plead by errors we found roughly twenty four million records that are no longer up to date mostly because people have moved in some cases because people have died we found fifty one million eligible voters who aren't on the rolls one for the old citizens united states a new report on america's quote inaccurate costly and inefficient voting system also found nearly two million dead individuals listed as eligible u.s. voters and nearly three million citizens registered in more than one state we're seeing voting problems during the two thousand and ten midterm elections resulted in a reported sixteen thousand votes being tossed out not counted i think she'll say the misuse of new electronic optical scan machines was to blame yet again that because price would likely be the integrity of america's free