Showing posts with label voters' register Bahamas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voters' register Bahamas. Show all posts

Sunday, March 27, 2011

PRIME Minister Hubert Ingraham will close the current voters' register sometime after June 2011... only those on the new register will be eligible to vote in the next general election

PM will close voters' register in June or July
By TANEKA THOMPSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
tthompson@tribunemedia.net



PRIME Minister Ingraham will close the current voters' register in June or July of this year - meaning that only those on the new register will be eligible to vote in the next election.

This move will give the Parliamentary Registrar more time to peruse the new voters' register. It will also allow the Parliamentary Registrar to give the Boundaries Commission a more accurate representation of the number of eligible voters in each constituency.

Once the current register is void, members of the Boundaries Commission will be appointed, the Prime Minister said.

"I can tell you this, sometime after June of this year I propose to cause the current register of voters to die - by that I mean to come to an end - which would mean only persons who are registered on the new register will be eligible to vote," said Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.

"I've got to give 90 days notice of that. I'm now thinking of giving that notice sometime during the month of April, so sometime towards the end of June or July I intend to bring the current register to an end.

"The Boundaries Commission will be appointed after that."

When asked if elections will be called this year, Mr Ingraham quipped: "No man knows of the hour but one and he ain' talking."

March 26, 2011

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