The Electoral Commission has found little evidence of wrongdoing in the North's electoral process during its assessment of the legislation's first year.
Public confidence in the electoral process improved after tough new anti-fraud laws were introduced, a study released by the Commission claimed today.
The British government brought in the Electoral Fraud Act in May 2002 to counter alleged impersonation and abuse at the North's polling stations, .
The Act brought about the most significant change to electoral law for years and came ahead of last month's Assembly polls.
Even though actual fraud levels were impossible to establish, measures introduced in the Act have increased confidence levels in the integrity of the voting process, the report found.
Electoral Commission chief Séamus Magee said: "Public opinion research conducted on behalf of the Commission shows that 72 per cent of a representative sample of the Northern Ireland population either strongly agreed or tended to agree that the new system should reduce electoral fraud."
Household registration was replaced by individual registration and made photographic identification compulsory at polling stations.
When the new register emerged it contained around 120,000 fewer names than lists based on the previous system.
Yet examinations by the authority found no real proof that huge swathes of the population had been denied the right to vote.