Electoral officials in Dili said Thursday that final voters' lists for East Timor's August 30 constituent assembly elections contained 409,019 eligible voters, after additions made in corrections of faulty preliminary lists.

Carlos Valenzuela of the Independent Election Commission stressed that any eligible voter who had registered but whose name did not appear on the lists could still cast a ballot on presentation of registration documents.

The corrected lists, which show Dili with more than 72,000 eligible voters, include 26,331 more names than the preliminary lists, which were earlier described as being marred by "systematic errors", Valenzuela said.

On August 30 the East Timores will choose an 88-seat constituent assembly to draw up the UN-administered territory's first constitution, a milestone in the countdown to independence, from among 16 parties and 16 nonpartisan candidates.