Electoral Registers : Implementing Final Strategies

According to the Electoral Code, every August 31 is the date set aside for the closing of the electoral registers. Simply put, persons of voting age cannot participate in any electoral process until the next annual registers are opened and they get themselves enlisted. Going by the Electoral Code in its Section 74(1), electoral registers shall be permanent and shall be revised every year throughout the national territory. Section two of the aforementioned section stipulates that “the annual revision of the electoral registers shall commence on January 1 and end on August 31 of every year.” Against this backdrop of the August 31 deadline, ELECAM, through its different branch offices, is implementing final and broad-based strategies to have as many potential voters included on the electoral registers.

During a visit to the Yaounde VI ELECAM branch office at the Biyem-Assi neighbourhood, the staff was met registering potential voters. The Chief of Agency, Nouna epse Bassangna Rose Coquette, said they have recorded about 5,000 newly registered persons this year and equally work on weekends, a strategy to have many more registered persons. She noted that they work in synergy with quarter heads to sensitise the population and encourage them to have their names enlisted. Nouna epse Bassangna Rose Coquette however stated that they have stopped the mobile caravan registration approach. This, she explained, is because there...