No guesswork there: Florida is one of the few states to include both party and race on registration files.

"I checked their registration files. "

Write-their-own software: A political campaign may choose to build their own database management system to handle their voter registration files.

The lists, which each have tens of thousands of addresses, are generally created by a process called e-mail appending, taking voter registration files from a member's district.

The Los Angeles Times weighted its poll, a standard practice, to mirror the percentage of Republicans and Democrats listed in voter registration files.

To find addresses, agencies also use computers to access "skip tracers" - national data bases with information gleaned from telephone directories, subscription houses and voter registration files.

State employees obtain data solely from each state's existing documents-including police accident reports, vehicle registration files, and vital statistics records-and then enter them into a central computer database.

Storm is assigned to lead Beast, Morph, and Wolverine into the Mutant Control Agency headquarters to destroy the registration files.

Internet registration files show that the Web addresses "shilohjolie," "shilohpitt," "shilohjoliepitt," "shilohnouveljolie," "shilohnouvelpitt" and "shilohnouveljoliepitt" - with the extensions .

I knew I wouldn't get so much as a by-your-leave from the local Social Security office and I doubted I'd find Billy Polo's name among the voter registration files.

He also pointed to efforts to computerize registration files, go outside the party organizations for employees and election day inspectors when the political machines cannot supply them, and finally, to move closer to a contract for new electronic voting machines.

The problem, investigators said, is that classic crime-solving techniques rapidly run into the harsh realities of postwar Iraq, which is almost devoid of police records and motor vehicle registration files, not to speak of more exotic items like databases of fingerprints or DNA.