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How is the national electoral register created?

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

EISA official website, May 2012 http://www.content.eisa.org.za/sites/eisa.org.za/files/imports/import-data/WEP/mau4.htm#fn12 (accessed 19 Aug 2014).

 

Registration is compulsory and continuous, but updated in annual registration drives. Voter registration drives are executed in three phases. Officials from the ECO register voters in annual door-to-door visits. Thereafter a comprehensive network of centres is opened where voters may correct deficiencies that arose in the previous phase. In the final phase the register of voters is published. Mauritian and Commonwealth citizens residing there for two years or more may register. Voters must present a national identity card or a birth certificate.

 

See also: The Representation of the People Act 1968 (as amended), 4, 9, 12, 24, 25, 36.

Comment
Method adopted in 1968. Officials from the ECO register voters in annual door-to-door visits. Thereafter a comprehensive network of centres is opened where voters may correct deficiencies that arose in the previous phase. In the final phase the register of voters is published.
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