Voter registration for 2014 elections to begin in July

Electronic voter registration for the 2014 elections will begin on July 3rd in Suva.

The government confirmed that a logistical team will be headed by Major Isoa Loanakadavu of the RFMF, who will be joined by William Hogan, an Australia-based electoral operations consultant with the UN/UNDP, and Mark Jones, Manager Operations at the Electoral Enrollment Center in New Zealand. 

It is confirmed that this team will work in collaboration with the Canadian electronic voter registration firm CODE Inc.

 

Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said comprehensive and thought-out logistical planning is necessary to ensure that each and every Fijian has the opportunity and ability to register.

The government said with a population of slightly less than 900,000, spread across more than 110 islands, the scale of this undertaking is immense. 

It said the logistical and technical requirements for such a process, most notably transportation considerations, will be complex. 

Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama will receive the first voter registration card on July 3rd. 

Voter registration will run for eight weeks at centers across the country.

Story by: Vijay Narayan