IEC announces supplementary voter registration

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | Thursday December 6, 2018 14:29

 

According to a Savingram from the organisation dated December 5, 2018, the supplementary voter registration will commence on December 17, 2018 till March 31, 2019.  It further urged all chief election officers, principal elections officers and principal registration officers to start necessary preparations to undertake the scheduled supplementary voter registration. 

 “The commission further determined the polling station-based supplementary voter registration, which will take place after the close of the constituency-based supplementary voter registration.  Actual dates for this supplementary voter registration will be communicated in due course,” it stated. 

According the IEC Facebook page a total of 750,830 eligible voters participated in the general voter registration window, which lasted for 10 weeks from September 3 until November 11, 2018.  The commission was targeting 1,592,350 eligible voters for the upcoming 2019 general election.