Revision Of Electoral Registers : Provisional Lists Printed

On October 20, the provisional list of potential voters will be published in all Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) Council Branches nationwide for consultation. This is in accordance with the provisions of Section 78 of the Electoral Code which obliges the posting up of the provisional list for consultation no later than October 20 after the close of electoral registers on August 31 of every year. To this effect, officials at the Department of Election Operations and Referendums are working to meet the legal deadline. A visit by Cameroon Tribune to the sub department for the register of voters, electoral registers and voter cards, met the officials at the printing phase of the provisional lists. They note that their objective was to complete printing by October 15 latest, so as to have enough time for verification and packaging of the documents to be dispatched to all the ten regions for publication in all Council areas by the stipulated deadline. “We are at the level of printing the lists. We do not have exact working hours at the moment. We are working on an objective which is ensuring that credible lists are published in all Council areas, even the most interior of them, no later than October 20,” one of the staff explained. 
Prior to the printing phase, the staff at the sub department, whose job is principally to ensure the consolidation of the national electoral register, first embarked on the expulsion of deceased persons, those ordered to be struck off the register by the competent judicial authority, persons who no longer meet the conditions laid down by law and person found to have been wrongly registered. Modifications with regards to change of residence, clerical errors noticed especially as concerns the full name, parentage, date and place of birth of the elector are also carried out ...