We must put more accent on voter registration

The supplementary registration, which was conducted by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) over the past two weeks, ended on Sunday. Reports filtering in are that the registration was not a huge success. According to IEC, the target was to register 300, 000 people.

After all the reconciliation had been done it appears the number of those who registered fell short of the target. Only about 216, 189 voters registered in the just-ended supplementary registration. This is not encouraging considering that even in the first general registration the numbers fell far short of the target.

In the general registration, the target was 650, 000 while only 350, 000 people registered.

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