Elections and Boundaries Department is Ready for Re-registration

Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai says that her department is fully prepared to carry out a successful re-registration exercise. Beginning on Monday, dozens of centers spread across all thirty-one constituencies will be manned by hundreds of temporary workers who would be registering electors with the hope of cleaning up the voters list. These centers will be open from Monday to Friday from nine o’clock in the morning to seven o’clock in the night. On Saturday, the centers will be welcoming voters at nine o’ clock in the morning and wrapping up by five o’clock. This morning Tamai urged all eligible voters to get registered.

Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer

Josephine Tamai

 “We are prepared for the mass re-registration commencing this Monday the second of July 2018. As persons know this exercise commences on Monday and the mass re-registration at the various registration centers will close on the thirty first of August, 2018. After the thirty first which starts on the first of September then persons will be required to be visit our regular officers throughout the country to do their registration. We want to urge persons to take advantage of the opportunity at the registration centers that we will be having. We will be reaching out to person in order for them to have access to the registration centers. I want to remind the public that these centers will be open from Monday to Friday from nine am to seven pm, on Saturdays from nine am and five pm on those days. The temporary employees, those persons have already started since this Monday because they are undergoing training already. So we have those persons in place in order to man this registration centers and also to conduct investigations as we go along throughout the process. As I mention these persons are onboard already so we are prepared for Monday starting for the mass re-registration.”

The list of the centers and locations can be found at www.elections.gob.bz