The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), which just concluded a 41-day
general voter’s registration on Sunday, says it will have a fresh
voters’ register ready in two months time. This was said by the ECN’s acting director of elections, Theo Mujoro,
yesterday when he announced the end of the 3rd general voters’
registration.“The ECN will be carrying out a number of important activities relating
to the preparation of the provisional voters’ register which will be
displayed for possible objections during the period April 3 – 15,” said
Mujoro.
He continued: “One May 27 will publish a notice in the gazette about the availability of the final voters’ register.”Mujoro said during the period March 3 – 9, the ECN will be receiving
voter registration data from all 121 constituencies as well as from the
country’s foreign missions abroad. It will also be “uploading voters’ data on [its] central servers at
[its] headquarters; running Automatic Fingerprint identification System (AFIS).” This, he says, will identify and remove any duplicates from the
provisional voters’ register.
During the same period the election body will be executing data integrity and quality checks. Before the gazetting of the new register on May 27, all registered
Namibians who died before or on 26 May will be automatically be removed
from the register with the assistance of the Ministry of Home Affairs. On those who will pass on after that day, Mujoro explained: “You must
keep in mind that we have a supplementary voters’ registration and with
this we go through the whole process again.”The supplementary voters’ registration is expected to take place before
this year’s general elections and Mujoro urged all those who did not
register yet, to do so then.
Source: Namibian Sun
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