The Uganda Electoral Commission will display the voters’ registers next week  from 11th August 2010 to 31st August 2010 such that it can give the public the chance to make any corrections that need to be made to the election register.

Sam Rwakoojo at Parliament

According to the Electoral Commission Act Section 25, the Electoral Commission is obliged to display election registers such that the public can have their input in the formulation of these registers.

While Speaking to Journalists at Parliament, the Secretary of the Commission Sam Rwakoojo has said the registration exercise which saw the EC register over 4 million new voters bringing the number of voters to about 15 million voters cannot be said to have been done with all the maximum accuracy and without any errors.

Rwakoojo says therefore voters should help the EC put right some of the errors it may have made in the registering of voters.

Rwakojo says some of the principal errors that they expect the public to point out for the commission are those related to the accuracy of their particulars, whether their particulars appear against the right photos and instances of dead people, non citizens and under age Ugandans that appear on the voters’ register.

Rwakoojo has also revealed that in the general elections that will take place early in 2011 Uganda will have 23, 915 polling stations up from about 19 thousand polling stations in the 2006 general elections.

Under Section 12 (1) of the EC Act the commission is mandated establish, merge, split, relocate and operate polling stations in the entire country for purposes of elections.

By Tiberindwa Zakaria, Ultimate Media