The Electoral Commission of Zambia has set June 21st ,2010 as the date for the commencement of the Continuous voter registration exercise.
Electoral Commission of Zambia Chairperson Justice Florence Mumba announced in Lusaka this morning that the commission is this week completing the last phase of the trainings of the registration officers in various parts of the country.
Justice Mumba says the commission is now ready to commence the continuous voter registration exercise in earnest.
She says through the continuous voter registration, the commission hopes to maintain a permanent,up to date accurate voters register.
She adds that the commission will implement the continuous voter registration through the periodic mobile registration campaigns.
Justice Mumba further reveals that the ECZ will implement the continuous voter registration exercise through periodic mobile registration campaigns and that teams equipped with the digital mobile registration kits will be deployed in each of the 72 districts in the country.
She says registration officers will be stationed at respective registration centers in each of the 150 constituencies for the period of 12 days.
Justice Mumba has since called on political parties, civil society organizations and the media to partner with the ECZ to inform the public about how the voter registration process will work and why it is important.
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KUYABEBELA NYAMA SOYA:d/:-\”:-\”:-\”:-\”:-\”:-\”
Political rhetoric? or just rounding up the citizenry?
” called upon to” help, is this manupilation of the voter’s mind?
How the vote is vital;
1. We express our minds.
2. Helps us usher in new and reliable leaders
3. We express our rights as citizens on ‘the power of choice’.
4. We choose who should represent us.
5. We lay a better future for our children.
6. We want to concentrate on making our lives better while someone is managing our external environment.
Disadvantages;
1.Our leaders turn their backs on us.
2.People get manupilated at the vote by ruling govt.
3.Registration becomes a criteria for corruption (ruling govt)
4.African leaders don’t honor the vote
5.We are tired of voting for greedy pipo who always rig elections(a vote is democratic propaganda).
“Commencement of the Continuous voter registration to start June 21” – stupid and careless mistake that. Why not just say “Continuous voter registration to start June 21”? It’s the tendency of Zambians to use superfluous language without regard to grammatical integrity.
No need to blank out the word s-t-u-p-i-d. It’s not offensive in the context it’s been used, nor is it a swear word.
pliz, we can,t wait to vote mmd out!! VIVA PACT
#3 I CONCUR WITH YOU. HOW DO YOU COMMENCE WHAT IS CONTINUOUS.