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This week I learned that, in Australia, historical electoral rolls have not been kept since 2008.
Before that they were kept as microfische and you can still access those physical records but only in the national capital's library in Canberra.
So even though it is easy now to archive, they have stopped. Each year the roll would be only about 4GB (18 million voters, 200 characters/bytes per voter). ie would fit on a DVD.
Certain bodies like researchers and (presumably) cops can get the whole thing each year so we can only hope they are keeping archives.