[ 2016-12-05 ]

Special Voting Records Total Turnout Of 101,014
The total turnout for the two phases of the
special voting exercise was 101,014, according to
provisional figures from the Electoral Commission
(EC).

This figure represents 79.29 percent of the
127,396 registered special voters. The figure for
the number of registered special voters’ has
however risen from 126,875 to the 127,396 per a
statement from the EC.

The first day of the special voting exercise on
Thursday, December 1 was marred by complications
arising from the inability of hundreds of special
voters, mostly security personnel, to cast their
ballots during the exercise.

They together with some people who were also
supposed to vote outside their original
constituencies were turned away by Returning
Officers and later informed they had to vote in
their original constituencies.

This compelled the EC to hold another special
voting exercise on Sunday, December 4 but that day
also recorded reports of some voters, mostly
security personnel, being unable to find their
names in the voters’ register. According to the
Commission, an additional 8,657 special voters’
cast their ballots during the second phase of the
special voting on December 4 to add to the 92,357
voters’ who cast their ballots on the first day
of special voting on December 1.

Source - Daily Guide

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