or the necessary technical and financial means may not be given. However, it is equally possible that politicians attempt to take advantage of their positions within the context of managing elections to manipulate the process of establishing the electoral list in order to compromise the outcomes of elections in their favour. All this constitutes the risk factors for the reliability and accuracy of the electoral list. An incorrect and biased electoral list is obviously a threat to democracy. Whether the bias consists in the exclusion of citizens or encourages the integration of unqualified people(foreigners or nationals who are not authorized to take part in elections) in the electoral list, the rationale behind democracy is hence compromised. In the first instance, where citizens are excluded from the electoral list, the political system which results from it is not totally legitimate and violates the fundamental rights of these citizens. In the second case, democracy is biased because the results of the elections no longer reflect necessarily the will of the citizens and therefore the decisions of the people in power no longer reflect the concerns of the people. The real problem which the electoral list poses is therefore that of knowing the conditions which should be established to narrow down the risks of establishing biased lists voluntarily or otherwise. This presupposes the necessity, aside from technical and financial means, to take measures to guarantee a list which right from the beginning is as reliable as possible. This also means that the appropriate conservation and above all the regular updating of the list are crucial in guarding against the risks of prejudices. 170