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An organization called the Public Interest Legal Foundation has notified 10 counties in Alabama that they have more registered voters than voting age population.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said he checked the numbers in the counties listed by the foundation and confirmed that all 10 had more registered voters than people 18 and older.

The counties are Lowndes, Perry, Greene, Macon, Wilcox, Marengo, Hale, Washington, Conecuh and Choctaw.

Merrill said all 10 counties have lost population since 2010 and believes some people who have left the counties remain on the voting rolls.

Merrill said there are a couple of initiatives in the works to make the rolls more accurate.

"This is just something we inherited, but it's something we intend to fix," Merrill said.

Former Secretary of State Jim Bennett was also aware of the concern.

Last year, Bennett's office released numbers showing that four counties had more registered voters than voting age population.

The 10 Alabama counties listed by the foundation are among 141 nationwide, according to the foundation. Only four other states had more counties on the foundation's list than Alabama.

They were Michigan (24), Kentucky (18), Illinois (17) and Indiana (11).

Here are the numbers for the 10 counties provided by the Secretary of State's office. The numbers reflect registered voters as of July 31 and the Census Bureau's population estimates for 2014:

-- Choctaw County, 10,765 registered voters, 10,582 adults

-- Conecuh County, 10,102 registered voters, 9,957 adults

-- Greene County, 7,230 registered voters, 6,561 adults

-- Hale County, 12,042 registered voters, 11,641 adults

-- Lowndes County, 10,230 registered voters, 8,135 adults

-- Macon County, 17,700 registered voters, 15,865 adults

-- Marengo County, 16,108 registered voters, 15,485 adults

-- Perry County, 8,521 registered voters, 7,621 adults

-- Washington County, 13,382 registered voters, 13,048 adults

-- Wilcox County, 9,059 registered voters, 8,341 adults

The Public Interest Legal Foundation says in its letters to counties that its figures are based on publicly available information from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Election Assistance Commission.

The foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, public-interest law firm that specializes in civil litigation affecting elections, voting and other political processes, according to its news release.

The president, J. Christian Adams, is the author of "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department."