Correct voter registry hiccups, Lema tells NEC

Dar es Salaam/Nachingwea/Mbeya. The biometric voter registration in Nachingwea Urban Council was cancelled after 12 of the 14 kits sent there failed to work, it has emerged.

>Poor turnout and technical hitches affecting biometric voter registration (BVR) kits were among problems that cropped up at the start of the pilot BVR study in three districts yesterday.

NEC says no extension of voter registration
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AS the Biometric Voters Registration (BVR) ended on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said it will not extend the deadline for registration. Speaking to 'Daily News' the NEC, Deputy Secretary Voter Education and Public ...

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NEC likely to extend voter registration
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National Electoral Commission (NEC) says it may extend duration for voters' registration ahead of the referendum on the proposed constitution scheduled for April 30 and the General Election in October, if the one-week period set for registration will not be ...
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NEC for voter register update
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THE National Electoral Commission (NEC) will update the voter register prior to next year's general election and referendum on the new constitution, the commission's Chairman, Judge (retired) Damian Lubuva has said. In a statement issued by the ...

No extension of Dar voter registration – NEC
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With two days to go, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced yesterday that it will not extend Dar es Salaam's voter registration deadline beyond Friday. However, to ensure that all eligible voters are registered, NEC has increased the number ...
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NEC issues timetable for voter registration
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THE long-awaited timetable for the registration of voters in the permanent register, PVR, through the Biometric Voter Register (PVR) and scheduled for kick-off in Njombe Region on February 23 has been released. Head of Information and Education of the ...

The National Electoral Commission will be to blame if things go wrong in the voter registration exercise using the Biometric Voter Register (BVR) kits, CCM’s Ideology and Publicity secretary Nape Nnauye has said.

A silent crisis is looming as the election nears. It would not be surprising if eligible voters were turned away in large numbers and denied the right to elect the leaders of their choice--simply because of inaccurate or missing particulars.