Voter registration: Deploy more machines in South East — CLO to INEC

The Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deploy more registration machines to the South East states to ensure willing voters got registered and were not disenfranchised.

The organisation’s Chairman in Aba, Dr. Charles Chinekezi, who made the call during an interview with reporters, applauded INEC for extending the registration deadline and increasing the number of registration machines in use in Lagos, Kano, and the five South East states. He however, stressed that 209 machines shared among 179 local governments of Lagos, Kano and South East were inadequate to ease the registration process, and asked the electoral umpire to add more machines and new registration points in the South East, to ensure that persons coming for registration were not frustrated into withdrawal.

“If we must achieve anything in this election preparation time, we need to do things differently. (Saturday Sun)