Voting started at 0700 hours this morning at all 30,000 polling
stations nationwide for the election of Assembly and Unit Committee
members.
Voters are expected to under-go biometric verification by the electoral officers before they can cast their ballots.
Apart from the verification exercise, the presiding officer is
also
expected to bring together polling assistants, a security officer and
any available polling agent, and open each of the ballot boxes in their
presence, as well as take out the election materials to ascertain that
all items are available.
According to officials of the Electoral Commission, every polling
station would have two biometric machines, while every district would
have a 20 per cent back-up for all the biometric machines available to
ensure that all electoral areas vote in one day.
All biometric devices, ballot papers and other election materials
have already been dispatched to the various districts, and officials for
the elections have received technical and procedural training for
today’s nationwide exercise.
Five officials would man the various polling stations where the
simultaneous elections would take place, but in the case of areas where a
single poll is being conducted, four of them would be in charge.
In all, a total of 40,000 security personnel have been selected from
the various security agencies, and deployed nationwide to
ensure peaceful elections.
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