Local counties wasted millions of dollars in cumbersome, error-ridden voter registration processes in the 2008 election, a new study finds. A survey conduced by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that 100 counties across the country collectively spent over $33 million on simple registration and error-correction processes. "There is massive amount of wasted funds out of county elections budgets that are spent on implementing antiquated registration systems," said the report's author, U.S.