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Mudede's office updating the voter's roll
15 Dec 2010 at 19:40hrs | Views
The Registrar General's Office has embarked on an exercise to collect
information on deceased persons as part of efforts to update the voters'
roll.
Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede told a Press conference yesterday that the process is part of a continuous data collection exercise, which started last August with the deployment of teams to parts of the country.
"The exercise involves deployment of teams to visit chiefs, headmen, village heads, farms, resettlements and other community leaders to collect information of those who died within their localities.
"Since the exercise started, the department has managed to collect information of 32 065 deceased persons and registered 5 882 deaths," he said.
Mr Mudede, however, said the exercise was not linked to the elections expected next year.
"People are always complaining that the voters' roll has names of deceased people that's why we introduced such an exercise to clean up the voters' roll, but this exercise is not linked with the forthcoming elections which are expected to be held mid next year," said Mr Mudede.
"This is an on-going exercise, " he said.
The Registrar-General urged the public to register the deaths of their relatives.
"The voters' roll can never be perfect and this is a problem being faced by every country in the world. People die every day.
"This affects the voters' roll, but have to keep a margin of error of 10 percent that is why we have continuous registration," Mr Mudede said.
Mr Mudede urged people to notify his department of any changes in their places of residence as part of efforts to have a clean voters' roll.
He said the department's 76 district and 206 sub offices were opened every day to cater for new registrations and registrations of deceased persons.
Mr Mudede said the updating of the voters' roll has always been carried out contrary to some reports.
The state of the voters' roll has been contentious in the past elections with some political parties arguing that it needed to be rectified urgently.
Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede told a Press conference yesterday that the process is part of a continuous data collection exercise, which started last August with the deployment of teams to parts of the country.
"The exercise involves deployment of teams to visit chiefs, headmen, village heads, farms, resettlements and other community leaders to collect information of those who died within their localities.
"Since the exercise started, the department has managed to collect information of 32 065 deceased persons and registered 5 882 deaths," he said.
Mr Mudede, however, said the exercise was not linked to the elections expected next year.
"People are always complaining that the voters' roll has names of deceased people that's why we introduced such an exercise to clean up the voters' roll, but this exercise is not linked with the forthcoming elections which are expected to be held mid next year," said Mr Mudede.
"This is an on-going exercise, " he said.
The Registrar-General urged the public to register the deaths of their relatives.
"The voters' roll can never be perfect and this is a problem being faced by every country in the world. People die every day.
"This affects the voters' roll, but have to keep a margin of error of 10 percent that is why we have continuous registration," Mr Mudede said.
Mr Mudede urged people to notify his department of any changes in their places of residence as part of efforts to have a clean voters' roll.
He said the department's 76 district and 206 sub offices were opened every day to cater for new registrations and registrations of deceased persons.
Mr Mudede said the updating of the voters' roll has always been carried out contrary to some reports.
The state of the voters' roll has been contentious in the past elections with some political parties arguing that it needed to be rectified urgently.
Source - Byo24
