Venezuelan registry axes 111-year-old voters

Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) — Venezuela’s National Election Council has dangling voting privileges for 15,500 people. Why? Because a nation’s voter registry says they’re between 111 and 129 years old.

“If we have a family member or know someone who could be between these ages, greatfully examination a list,” a legislature says on a website. “If they are on a list … tell us their condition.”

The legislature pronounced Monday that a suspensions were partial of efforts to refurbish a nation’s voter registry.

Venezuela’s normal life outlook is 74, according to projections from a National Statistics Institute.

Officials guess that there are some-more than 18 million people authorised to opinion in Venezuela’s presidential elections subsequent October. More than 300,000 new electorate have registered, a legislature said, including 268,030 people between 18 and 25 years old.

Journalist Osmary Hernandez contributed to this report.