[ 2016-12-02 ]

Special Voting to continue Sunday
The Special Voting Exercise which was afflicted
with missing names and other irregularities today
is set to continue on Sunday December 4, to allow
disenfranchised special voters to vote,
StarrFMonline.com has learnt.

The continuation was decided after the Electoral
Commission met representatives of the political
parties in an emergency meeting Thursday.

Today’s exercise registered several mishaps with
many security officials being unable to trace
their names in the list submitted to the
designated polling centres by the commission.

The EC had earlier claimed they were not to blame
for the failures.

The main elections will be on December 7, where a
president and parliamentarians will be elected.

Special voting is a special dispensation under the
electoral laws that allows registered voters who
will not be able to present themselves at their
polling stations on voting day as a result of the
roles they will play in the elections to vote on a
date before the rest of the electorate vote on the
date set for the elections.

The category of people who are allowed to do
special voting are security personnel, officials
of the EC and journalists.

Source - Starrfm

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