What you should know about voter verification exercise

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday rolled out the verification of National Voters’ register at village level and identification of Persons with Disability (PWDs).

The eight-day nationwide exercise that runs up to October 28, is aimed at updating the national voters’ register and verifying voters’ particulars ahead of the 2021 general election.

EC’s deputy spokesperson Paul Bukenya told Daily Monitor in an interview yesterday that the purpose of the exercise is to enable members of a particular village scrutinise their respective register and identify persons who are not eligible to vote.
Those to be scrapped off the register include the dead and those who have since left the area to settle elsewhere.

“This time, we came up with the idea that if we take the register to each village, it will help us identify challenges at the village level,” Mr Bukenya said.
Residents in the respective villages will be required to attend local council meetings convened by the village chairpersons.

The village council comprises all persons who are residents of a given village, who are citizens and registered voters.
During the meeting, EC will roll call to ascertain the names of the registered voters.

Those in attendance will be accorded opportunity to verify their particulars on the register and also make recommendations of deletion for those who died or those that have since shifted to other areas.

Names of the dead shall then be entered in the Notification of Dead Form designed for that purpose provided by the National Identification Registration Authority, according to Mr Bukenya.

During this same period, EC will identify all PWDs in the respective villages for purposes of compiling a clean village PWDs register.

Particulars of verified PWDs will be compiled in the village PWD register book provided by the EC.
The verification of voters and identification of PWDs will be conducted by the parish supervisor (verification officer).

With a total of 68,650 villages, each will have only one meeting in the given time frame to have particulars of the residents verified.

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