The National voters register verification exercise launched ahead of 2021 general elections

The electoral Commission has launched the verification of the National voters’ register and identification of persons with disabilities.

The commission on Thursday October 17th 2019 at their head quarter briefed the media and other stakrholders about the national electoral activity of verification of the national voters’ register and the identification of persons with disability (PWDS) at the village level .

The commission will conduct verification of the National voters’ Register (NVR) at village level, cleaning of the National voters’ Registers at village level (or verification of the national voter’s Register ) will entail convening village council meetings to be presided over by the village chairperson and the brief of sub- country supervisors on verification of the National voters register (NVR).

“I would like to assert that a credible National Voters’ register is a cornerstone for conducting successful elections, it is therefore imperative that we continued to explore ways for immediate and innovative solutions to the above challenges”.

“These activities will be conducted by the district staff comprised of the district Registrars, Assistant District Registrars, sub county supervisors and parish supervisors. The regional Elections officers and headquarter staff will monitor and provide support supervisors. The Regional Elections officers and headquarter staff will monitor and provide support supervision to the exercise and the EC staff shall work hand in hand with NIRA officials in this exercise”, Justice Byabakama Mugenyi Simon asserted while addressing the media.

The briefing of pariah supervisors and village chairpersons on verification of the National voters Register will be conducted today Thursday October 17th 2019 at sub county level.

The mobilisation of the village residents to participate in the village level verification of the voters’ register will be carried out for a period of three days from Friday, October 18, 2019 to Sunday, October 20th 2019.

The village council meetings to verify the national voters’ register will be held in each village per parish on separate days for a period of eight days from Monday October 21st 2019 to Monday, October 28th 2019 and the update of the National voters Register and compilation of registers for special interest groups will commence on Monday the 21st November, 2019 and end on Wednesday 11th December 2019.

The creation of the National Registration identification Authority (NIRA) as a statutory Authority responsible for registration of citizens, birth and death, which made it requirement to provide a certificate of death, as evidence in order to remove particulars of the dead from the National voters’ Register.

A village council meeting will gathering of residents mobilized by the local council (LCI) under the leader the leadership of the village chairperson for purpose of addressing a particular village issue .
Verification of the National voters’ Register exercise for a particular village is an issue which the meeting should address.

The verification official shall guide the meeting through a roll call session to ascertain particulars of those voters which should be removed from the National voters’ register .

The reasons for the removal are those that would ordinary be spelt out in the display guidelines, and these include the dead, those voters who have left the area and non citizens and the gathered information during the meeting shall be compiled and submitted for onward processing through the commissions’ established channels.

The Electoral commission appeals to all stakeholders in the electoral process to participate in this important exercise and in accordance with the issued guidelines.