Speaking at a workshop to evaluate the last general elections, the representatives said voter registration should be as close to the polling as possible. They said the first registration for this year's general elections was in 2007 and after this there had been a lot of movement and relocation by voters. "We even tend to forget that we had registered and we end up being rejected in the voters' rolls for registering more than once and this is the reason why there are so many cases in court during elections," one of the participants said.
Another called for agents of political parties to be posted at voter registration stations to guard against any malice by registration officers. The participants said the electoral process is good but it is being tarnished by some parties who explore it for personal gains. They requested that the law must be reviewed to bar those who have been arraigned in court during objections from voting. They indicated that under the current arrangement, such voters are free to register during supplementary registration and vote.
