2010’s low voter rate may recur in October

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Illiteracy Behind Low Voter Registration
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Many rural dwellers, especially women, in Arusha and Manyara regions may have failed to register for the coming polls due to illiteracy. The situation has been compounded by traditional customs among the traditional livestock keepers which play down ...

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Limitations that civil societies encountered in the provision of voter education contributed to poor turnout and technical hitches during the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR); civil society organisations said yesterday.

>Voting is considered the most important form of political participation in a democracy. However, in recent years most election reports have indicated a fall of voter turnout in elections in both new and established democracies.

>Various voter registration centres for local government elections in various streets experienced a low turnout in the city yesterday though it went well as the process entered its second day.

>In My Book of Things, the title to the leading front-page report of The Citizen on December 15 this year takes the cake! ‘Local elections a farce,’ simply read the headline; but it told us so much in so few words what’s happening to ‘Tanzanian democracy’ in general  – and elections specifically!

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