Objectives of the Exhibition and Challenge:
• Review the preliminary voter registry
• Object to the registration of ineligible voters
• Correct erroneous citizen registration data or errors to data published in the registry.
Structure of the Exhibition and Challenge Process:
• The exhibition and challenge period shall be three successive days, commencing Monday, March 1, 2021 until Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
• The CEC shall open all 1,090 Exhibition and Challenge Centers across the various residential communities.
• Exhibition and Challenge Centers shall open from 8am until 3pm.
• The centers shall receive accredited local observers and journalists holding accreditation cards from the CEC.
Exhibition of the Voter Registry:
• A copy of the preliminary voter registry of each center shall be exhibited.
• The exhibited registry includes the names and data of a given center’s registrants who are eligible to vote in the 2021 legislative and presidential elections.
Data Correction:
• Citizens with errors to their voter registry data have the right to submit an objection request to examine the accuracy of the data at the center in order to rectify any incorrect data.
Challenging the Registration of Others:
• Every citizen has the right to object to the inclusion of any ineligible voter’s name in the voter registry if the objection is submitted to the same center of the published name, and is accompanied by the required supporting documents.
• The CEC will notify persons with objections to their registration.
• The person who has had their registration objected to must submit a request to dismiss the objection within 24 hours of receiving notice.
• The objection dismissal is submitted either to the same center where the objection request was referred, or to the electoral district office if the center is closed.
Steps for Submitting Objections and Adjudication:
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Steps
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Timeframe
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1
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Submit the objection request at the center
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Within 3 days of the preliminary registry’s publication
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2
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Notify the objected person
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Immediately after submitting the objection request
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3
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Submit objection dismissal by the objected person
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Within 24 hours of notification
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4
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Process the objection by the CEC
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Within 3 days of submitting the objection
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5
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Appeal CEC decision before the Elections Cases Court
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Within 3 days of the notification of CEC’s decision
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6
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Adjudication of appeals by the Court
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Within 5 days of submitting the appeal
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• The CEC shall receive complaints related to the transfer of voters’ polling centers from one center to another, without their knowledge, within the same residential community. The CEC shall use this time (until the end of the exhibition and challenge period) to resolve issues related to such occurrences.
Exhibition and Challenge Centers