TINA S. MEHNPAINE
Africa-Press – Liberia. The National Elections Commission (NEC) has declared that it is firmly on track with the deployment of electoral materials in preparation for the October 10 elections.
As of October 2, the electoral body has claimed to have dispatched electoral materials to 11 out of the 15 counties, with materials for the remaining four counties being packaged.
According to Davidetta Browne-Lansanah, the Chairperson of NEC, election materials have been successfully deployed to Sinoe, Maryland, River Gee, and Grand Kru counties. Others are River Cess, Grand Gedeh, Lofa, Nimba, Gbapolu, Grand Cape Mount, and Bong counties, while materials for Montserrado, Bomi, Grand Bassa, and Margibi are currently being packaged and will be dispatched soon.
“Training for temporary staff for the October 10 polls is proceeding as planned,” Lansanah said. “The following categories and numbers of staff have completed their training across the country: 79 Electoral District Coordinators, 382 Electoral Supervisors, 5,890 Presiding Officers, and 5,890 Voter Identification Officers. Training for the remaining temporary staff will commence soon.
“The accreditation of agents for political parties and independent candidates is currently in progress,” she added. “The Commission urges political parties and independent candidates to visit the NEC Political Affairs Office to complete the accreditation process for their agents.”
Meanwhile, Lansanah has disclosed that the electoral body has ordered a reprint of the ballot papers for Margibi County electoral district 1. The decision, she noted, was prompted by the discovery of an error where a political party’s initial was mistakenly placed under the logo of an independent candidate.
The error, according to Lansanah, has been rectified, and the corrected ballots, printed in Ghana, arrived yesterday.
She also clarified that the number of registrants on the Final Registration Roll remained unchanged at 2,471,617 eligible voters. Lansanah underscored that the preliminary figures released during the data processing phase were subject to deduplication and adjudication, leading to the final tally.
“The Commission announced the preliminary outcomes of the number of registrants at the time of processing the data from the first and second phases of the collation of the numbers,” Lansanah said. “At that time, the figures announced were a work in progress that, after deduplication and adjudication, the Commission announced the Final Registration Roll of 2,471,617 eligible voters for the 10 October 2023 Elections.”
“Let me use this medium to thank the Ministry of Justice and the security apparatus for providing security to the Commission since the beginning of the electoral process,” she noted.
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