Tor Vergata, the second-largest university in Rome, has discovered that just before elections for university committees several hundred new students, mostly over 30, enrol, pay a first instalment of fees, vote, and then disappear. Officials suspect that since most students never vote, the "ghost students" can elect candidates who then control the assignment of lucrative outside contracts.
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