How is the national electoral register created?

Lesotho

Lesotho

Answer
Created by the EMB using its own data collection and/or other sources of data
Source

EISA Election Observer Mission Report: Lesotho Parliamentary elections 26 May 2012, p. 22.

Voter registration in Lesotho is mandatory and a continuous process.

EISA Election Observer Mission Report: Lesotho Parliamentary elections 26 May 2012: http://www.content.eisa.org.za/sites/eisa.org.za/files/imports/import-data/PDF/les2012eom.pdf

 

National Assembly Election Observation Report, SADC-PF (2002)

Belinda Musanhu 2009 'Chapter 5: Lesotho' IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds) Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa 1989-2009: 20 Years of Multiparty Democracy, EISA, Johannesburg, 166.

 

For the 2002 elections, The IEC completely discarded the voter’s list that was used in 1998, as many Parties had queried its accuracy and validity. […] The targeted registration took place from 13 August to 30 September 2001, after extension of three weeks.

http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/LS/lesotho-national-assembly-election-observation/at_download/file

Comment

Method adopted in 2001. For the 2002 elections, The IEC completely discarded the voter’s list that was used in 1998, as many Parties had queried its accuracy and validity. […] The targeted registration took place from 13 August to 30 September 2001, after extension of three weeks.

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