The electoral commission of Zambia says ballot papers for the elections will be ready by the 10th of September.
ECZ director Pricilla Isaacs disclosed this at a one day media heads workshop in Lusaka.
Ms. Isaac says the printing of presidential ballot papers which commenced on Tuesday this week is expected to be completed by this weekend.
She has also attributed delay in sending data for parliamentary and local government candidates to the printers in South Africa to the proof reading of data before it is sent to the printers.
Ms. Isaac however says that following concerns raised by the printing company in south Africa on the delay by the ECZ to release data, proof reading for local government candidates is being done to catch up with the five provinces for parliamentary candidates whose date has been sent to the printers.
And Ms Isaac says counting of ballots in this year%u2019s election will be done at the stream level in order to speed up the counting process.
She also disclosed that the ECZ has bought satellite phones to easy communication challenges faced by its officers during the elections in remote areas.
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We are ready to vote for RB even if they can 19 September. Rb nafuti nafuti nafuti
Priscilla ISAACS is she a zambian or she is married to a muzungu? what are her real names. Zambia never ceases to amaze me , why delay to send names to UPG any of those pipo who went on holiday to witness printing of ballots shoud have gone with a 500GB drive full of data mwembulimwe
This time no rigging let who is to loss loss and win win. And remove ZAF  and OP from this exercise. in the out airlift ballots they change ballots ZAF sti have to ballots let be accompained by all parties representative. let not OP be involved in transmitting results find zamtel workers who are expert in transmission dont tel them again you dont trust them and replace them by OP as you  did in 2008 by election. this time rigging will cause fire in the country people are alert this time. whoever win let win in clear way.
This window is too open and can cause unwarranted schemes. Let the ballot papers fly in into the country three days before elections and delivered by planes and choppers to all rural areas immediately.Â
PF BIG PEOPLE IN FRONT…MAKE SURE MEASURES TO SAFE GUARD OUR BALLOTS ARE PUT IN PLACE JUST FROM SOUTH AFRICA…PANTU IYI YENA..THE VICTORY IS SURE….
Surely why would people begin to Ba Priscila’s origin truly Zambian. Refer to the issues of Ballots and electoral matters. Such as why sould they come at such a particular time. Its timely that when they get here on that date every polling station will be availed with all the necessary requirement to run a station and all counter checked.
We’ve the brains but we don’t want to utilize them. Iron out positives from negatives and vice versa to get to a fruitful conclusion. Zambians lets be grateful to these service for the efforts being rendered they’ve families too and are Zambians.
For once we have a lady who is doing a good job in charge….
While you are update the nation on the printing of ballot papers process, you are still not addressing the issue of corruption at UPG.
This matter cannot be wished away. it must be fully addressed in order to give credibility to the whole electoral process.
The allegations of corrupting some ECZ officials by UPG need serious answers.
We don’t want any post election troubles as a result of your failure to do a good job for the nation. We only have ONE ZAMBIA
no extension expected
CORRUPTION! CORRUPtion! CORruption! Corruption! corruption! corrupshshsh! corrupshSH….! corshSHiii…..! shSHSHiii…..! SHUSH KEEP QUIET! There has never been such a vice in Zambia!Â
indeed who is this Isaccs? The name is un Zambian. My name is Chumbu Munshululwa meaning; “Hot potato”. So, what does this Isaccs mean?