The late Elvis Presley plans to be a ghost voter at the 2007 national elections in the jungle-clad South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea — if you believe the nation’s electoral rolls.

In 2006 almost half of Papua New Guinea’s 4.9 million registered voters were regarded by the electoral commission as ghost voters and did not exist. Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen said ghost voters remained a problem with several Elvis Presleys, the U.S. rocker who died in 1977, registering to vote, alongside a handful of Tom Jones, and a couple of kings and queens.

As of March, the country’s five highland provinces have voter registrations ranging from 116 percent to 132 percent, said the commission in its voter analysis received by Reuters on Monday.

Following the Floriduh role model, I see.