In preparation for the 2020-2021 General Elections, and in accordance with Section 25 of the Electoral Commission Act (Cap 140), the Electoral Commission has appointed 19th February – 10th March 2020 as the period for the Display of the National Voters’ Register.
The display of the Voters’ Register shall begin at 8:00 am and end at 6:00 pm on each of the appointed dates including weekends, at all polling stations throughout Uganda.
The Commission has further appointed 19th – 28th February 2020 as the period for display of the Voters’ Registers for the following Special Interest Groups (SIGs) at the village level: the Youths, Persons with Disability (PWD) and Older Persons.
The purpose of this display exercise is to enable voters to; check for the correctness of their particulars on the Voters’ Register, confirm that their photographs appear against correct particulars on the Register, register objections to the inclusion and/or removal of a voter’s particulars from the Register, among others.
“During this exercise, the Electoral Commission will display lists of persons who were recommended for deletion from the National Voters’ Register during the Verification Exercise which was conducted at village level in October 2019,” said EC chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama.
Byabakama urged Ugandans to take this exercise very seriously because, “this is a very important exercise, which could determine whether you vote on polling day or not.”
