Burkinabè but had died many years ago and that his father was unknown. The “aunt” who had taken him away had sold him into forced labor. She is also now dead. Ali returned to Gbapleu and has found temporary work as a field laborer to survive. He recently tried to obtain a genuine Burkinabè consular card, on the basis of the information he had found out about his origins, but the Burkinabè consular authorities refused to give him one because he had no documentary proof of his birth or parentage and because he had used an old consular card that was not his. He lives desperate and ostracized from the Burkinabè communities of his birth, as well as where he has lived for over twenty years. 5.6. Individuals refused Ivorian national and voter ID cards for the 2010 elections The final voter list for the 2010 presidential elections was validated in September 2010 after a three-year process that combined the drawing up of this list with the identification of Ivorian nationals. It certified 5,725,720 Ivorian nationals as eligible to vote. This number represented 86.3% of all who applied to register to vote (6,636,263), but only 66% of the Prime Minister’s estimated total voter population (8,663,149) based on projections calculated by the National Statistics Institute.195 In this process, 601,322 persons who applied for Ivorian ID and voter cards were rejected and placed on what was called the “gray list” for having undetermined nationality. To date, the status of those on the “gray list” has not been resolved. What can be said about the statelessness and nationality considerations of those included on this list? Recall that the Ouagadougou Peace Agreement (APO) of 2007 called for the launch of mobile court hearings to assist people with obtaining jugements supplétifs in order to participate in the national identification and voter registration schemes. For the voter list, anyone on the 2000 voter list would automatically obtain Ivorian national ID cards and be re-registered for the forthcoming elections. With respect to identification of Ivorian nationals from 2007 to 2010, the APO relaxed the documentary conditions and only required that applicants produce a birth certificate or jugement supplétif to prove their identity to be checked by the government.196 An Interministerial working group devised a system to check the names of those who came forward to register to vote against what it called the “merged database of Ivorian nationals,” and the “merged database of foreigners.”197 If the named applicant was not found in the databases, the names of the applicant’s parents were checked to see if they could be found in the databases.198 The 12 historical databases used for this exercise included: the 1990 and 1995 voter lists; the 1998 census; lists of the administrative agencies that managed social insurance and pensions of the private and public sectors; the list of public servants; the list of those who acquired Ivorian nationality through naturalization; the database of those who held the green national ID cards issued between November 1998 and January 2000; civil status records, including information on jugements supplétifs issued in the 2007 mobile court hearings; and the database of cartes de séjour issued to ECOWAS and non-ECOWAS citizens.199 Given the history of the amendments made to the identification laws and concerns about how they were – and more often were not – implemented in practice, serious questions remain 195 EU Election Observation Mission, supra note 134. See discussion in Section 4.2 above. 197 Atoine Adou and Moktar Lam, Identification – Enregistrement Electronique de la Population & des Electeurs: Cas de la Côte d’Ivoire, European Commission / UNDP Thematic Workshop on information Technology and Elections Management held in Mombasa, Kenya from 5-9 March 2012. 198 Notre Voie, Crise Ivoirienne, Liste électorale provisoire – Le DG de l’INS explique le mécanisme du croisement, 9 October 2009. 199 Adou and Lam, supra note 197. 196 54