EC starts verification of voters’ register at village level

NEWS BRIEF: The Electoral Commission started a nationwide exercise to verify particulars of voters on the National Voters’ Register using village (LC 1).

The exercise started on October 21^st and will end on October 28^th conducted in all villages throughout the whole country.

“The purpose of the verification exercise is to enable members of the particular village to scrutinize their respective register and identify persons who are not eligible to be on the Voter’s register for their village, for example, the dead and those who left the area”, said Jotham Tumwesigye the EC spokesperson.

He also said that the commission will also use the exercise to identify persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in each village for purposes of compiling a clean village PWDs registers.