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The Electoral Commission (EC) has indicated that there was duplication of some voter identification numbers during the registration process today, October 1.
But the commission noted that the error has been corrected.
“It has come to the attention of the Commission that various biometric voter registration (BVR) kits at some registration centers have issued applicants with voter identification numbers that have already been issued,” the EC said in a statement.
Applicants affected will be contacted and issued with new identification cards with unique numbers, ”according to the commission.
“It is important to note that the biometric and biographical data of the affected applicants are intact,” the EC also assured.
The electoral roll was opened from 7 am to 6 pm in their district offices for people who could not participate in the massive registration exercise organized in June and July.
Some of the people who participated are voters who were out of the country due to COVID-19 restrictions, those who were under a mandatory 14-day quarantine and could not participate in the mass voter registration and eligible voters who had an ID duly issued voter registration number. cards but whose names are missing from the record on display.
People who recently turned 18 also had the opportunity to register.
The law of the Public Elections Regulations indicated that the EC may “include in the voter registry, the name of a person who qualifies for the registry as a voter and is registered, but it will not include in the voter registry the name of a person who qualify to register as a voter for an election, but who registers less than sixty days for that election ”
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— citinewsroom
