Over 2,000 aliens caught trying to register as voters

Aliens listed in voters register
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TWENTY-SEVEN aliens registered in the permanent voters register (PVR) in Misenyi District were arraigned on Friday, Misenyi District Immigration Officer, Laurent Mutare said. According to Mr Mutare, 10 Rwandese and five Ugandans were nabbed at Kyaka ...

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced yesterday that 23.7 million Tanzanians will be eligible to vote in next month’s General Election.They are among 24,001,134 people who were listed during the biometric voter registration  countrywide earlier this year.

4000 aliens 'sneak' into permanent voter register
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OVER 4,000 aliens are reported to have deceitfully registered in the permanent voter register (PVR) in Kyerwa District, Kagera Region, which observers have described as a serious security risk. Latest reports have it that a total of 12,128 Rwandese and ...

After the successful completion of voter registration using the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits in the Dar es Salaam region, which also marked the end of the exercise to update the permanent voter register in the country the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has embarked on verification of the register.

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Eligible voters to register afresh - NEC
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THE National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Tuesday that all eligible voters have to be registered as part of updating the voter register. The NEC Chairman, retired Judge Damian Lubuva, said in Dar es Salaam that all eligible voters - with or without ...

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Government pressured over permanent voters' register
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The government has been pressured to tell the public as to why it was dilly dallying to register all eligible voters in the country in the permanent voters' register. The Leader of Opposition in the Parliament, Freeman Mbowe told Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda ...

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) is set to delve into untested territory, by seeking to go hi-tech in the 2015 General Election.

NEC pushes for Isles 'clean voters register'
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THE National Electoral Commission (NEC) plans to re-register all eligible voters in the country using Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) technology. Introducing the plans in Zanzibar at a press conference, NEC Commissioner, Ms Mchanga Hassan Mjaka, ...

Bukoba residents urged to register in voters' permanent book
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BUKOBA Urban Member of Parliament, Ambassador Khamis Kagasheki (CCM) has reminded residents in the region on the importance of registering themselves in the Voters' register, adding that those who will fail to register themselves will miss the ...