Electoral Commission into “roll cleansing”

The Electoral Commission is conducting workshops for its provincial elections managers in its preparations for electoral roll exercises.

This week elections managers from the highlands region gather at a workshop where they are going through the process of “roll cleansing”.

This is when Electoral Commission officials go through the electoral roll to remove ghost names, duplicates; names of voters who are deceased, under-age voters and so on.  

Southern region will start this exercise next week.

By March this year the rolls should be out for display throughout the country for the public to verify before it is returned to the provincial electoral offices.

And before the actual update of the common roll election officials will be appointed.

This will also take place this year.

Once appointments are made registration of new voters and updating of the roll should begin by April.

After it is updated there will also be a two month period where the rolls will be on display again for objections.

The roll then goes in for final amendments and printing.

The commission will announce dates for the electoral roll exercise when it is ready.

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Author: 
Joy Kisselpar