He also stated that an unspecified number of civil servants - who will be running the elections on October 30 - would elect representatives of their choice tomorrow.
It was also reported that this time around, voters would be able to choose their preferred council and parliamentary candidates.
However, Seeletso indicated that some of the reforms, like the use of the area-specific ballot papers would not apply and instead unilateral ballot papers would be used in tomorrow’s election.
“After the last elections, we evaluated its conduct with the relevant stakeholders and one of the preferred reforms was to introduce area-specific ballot papers to reduce confusion, which resulted in a number of spoiled papers,” he said, but added that “if we were to wait for nomination day to determine the specific ballot papers for the various areas, that would have caused a lot of delay on our part because we would still be waiting for the ballot papers to be finalised from the printing side even today”.
He added that his office was still waiting for the area-specific ballot papers to be printed as they have been sent to the printers.
He was however, happy that the IEC would be dealing with trained electoral staff who understand things better. Meanwhile, the Francistown IEC principal elections officer, Clement Siviya, has said that they were all set for tomorrow’s elections in his area. He was however not certain of the actual number of officers who would take part in the elections in the city.
Polling stations within the city are Leseding and Phase Four community halls and the Ntshe House Conference Hall. Siviya indicated that the opening hours for the elections would be between 7am and 6pm.
Returning officers for the three constituencies in Francistown are Gaokgakala Rabalone (East), Sylvia Muzila (West) and Sonny Adam Chiliwa (South).
