Electoral Commission Announces Final Voter Register for 2024 Elections

The Electoral Commission (EC) has unveiled the final certified voter register in preparation for the upcoming general elections on December 7, 2024.

According to the EC, a total of 18,774,159 voters have been confirmed as eligible to participate in the elections. This number includes three main categories of voters:

1. Biometrically Registered Voters: 18,640,811 voters who have provided biometric data and will undergo biometric verification on election day.
2. Special Voters: 131,478 individuals, including security personnel, media representatives, and EC officials, who will vote early due to their responsibilities on election day.
3. Voters Without Biometric Data: 1,870 voters whose biometric data was corrupted, necessitating manual verification on election day.

In its statement, the EC noted that logistical changes have resulted in the administrative closure of some polling stations.

Certain stations were closed because they did not meet the minimum required voter threshold, while others were shut down at the request of local communities.

The EC has reassigned voters from these closed stations to nearby polling places to ensure they can still cast their votes.

The statement clarified that since no register was generated for the closed polling stations, there was no absent voters list created, resulting in 884 voters being excluded from that list.

However, their records, including movement details, are securely maintained within the Voter Management System to ensure full accountability.