Close to 1000 election observers resign

Though the Secretary of the Independent Electoral Commission (EC) Gabriel Seeletso says some polling officers who registered to vote in places far from where they were deployed to conduct elections opted out, the affected officers were actually pushed, it has emerged.

Some of them have told Mmegi that they were plainly told that they were expected to conduct elections where they were assigned or forfeit their right to vote. Being transferred to the constituencies where they registered to vote was out of the question, it was allegedly emphasised.