DCEC takes Sunday Standard to court
Friday, June 27, 2014
In an urgent application through the Attorney General, DCEC seeks to interdict the newspaper and its editor Outsa Mokone or “any other persons who may have access through them from publishing, distributing or disseminating information, material, excerpts or any other contents of docket DOC/IF/2011/01166”.
The papers further say that the DCEC is seeking to order “The Respondents or any other persons having access through them to return to the Applicant all tapes, documents, material, information emanating from docket DOC/IF/IF/2011/0116 within 24 hours from the date of the order; that any opposing respondent to the application be ordered to pay costs of the application”.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...