ACE Electoral News
ACE Electoral News
- Museveni unlikely to hand over power - poll, Monitor Online (2008)
- More than half of Ugandans believe President Museveni is unlikely to voluntarily hand over power if the ruling National Resistance Movement party loses the 2011 general election, fresh details from an opinion poll commissioned by Daily Monitor indicate.
- NRM’s Byarugaba wins Isingiro, New Vision (2009)
- Byarugaba got 58,965 votes (80.2%) defeating her Forum for Democratic Change opponent, Stella Kyakuhaire Kafureka, who polled 14,534 votes (19.8%).
- Opposition parties to protest Museveni’s stand on reforms, Monitor (2009)
- The opposition parties under the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) had demanded that to make the Electoral Commission more independent, the powers to appoint EC commissioners be vested in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) with approval of Parliament.
- Two top officials of the ruling NRM confess of Rigging the polls, Monitor (2009)
- “It is true some of our big people in the NRM rig elections,” Deputy spokesperson Ofwono Opondo said, adding that some NRM party officials facilitate independents and opposition candidates to trounce the party’s official candidates.
- Museveni gives EC team another term, Monitor Online (2009)
- “The Attorney General has recommended the re-appointment of members of the Electoral Commission and I have approved them. However, in order to fulfil the requirements for the re-appointment process, I hereby recommend that you vet them accordingly,” Mr Museveni wrote in his one-page letter.
- Row as elections team is approved, Monitor Online (2009)
- Legislators on the Committee, who subscribe to the ruling National Resistance Movement, were however unmoved by the walk out, as they unanimously approved all the six commissioners re-appointed by the President on August 5.
- Bidandi hits back at Museveni on Polls, Daily Monitor (2009)
- “The decision you have made to reappoint the current Electoral Commission team to manage the 2011 general elections is very unfortunate and dangerous to the stability of this country,” Mr Bidandi wrote.
- 2011 polls: Battle lines drawn, Monitor (2009)
- Ugandans should prepare for a heady 2011 general elections as potential presidential candidates storm the countryside to court voters largely left in the cold since the last elections more than three years ago.
- CUF calls for release of elections rules, Daily News (2009)
- THE Opposition party, the Civic United Front (CUF), yesterday called for the immediate release of the regulations for the civic elections at the grass-root level which are scheduled for October 25, this year.
- NRM inquiry reveals how a million ‘ghost’ voters got to EC register, Monitor Online (2009)
- These are preliminary findings of a wide study and all property; intellectual rights belong to the research team. This has been a voluntary effort for purposes of strengthening NRM Party Systems.
- 5,000 ghost polling stations call for overhaul of Electoral Commission, Monitor Online (2009)
- Whatever its intentions may be, the presence of one million ghost voters and 5,000 ghost polling stations, for three successive general election on our national register all demonstrates that the electoral system in Uganda needs complete overhaul.
- Uganda: Museveni ordered ghost voter probe, New Vision (2009)
- PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni says he commissioned and funded the research into ghost voters on the national register. The researchers discovered anomalies as they compiled the NRM register while comparing it with the national one, but the report is not yet final, Museveni said.
- East African countries to have common electoral laws, Daily Monitor (2009)
- Mr Kategaya told journalists in Kampala yesterday that the East African Community (EAC) secretariat is formulating electoral practices which will apply in all member states. He added that this is being done to fast track the political federation of East Africa.
- Uganda:Clarification on allegations of existence of ‘one million ghost voters on the National Voters’ Register’,EC (2009)
- The Electoral Commission would like to refute the claims in the above articles and provide clarification on the issues raised therein as follows:
- Uganda: EC should be kicked out over ghosts - peers, Daily Monitor (2009)
- Dr Zac Niringiye, the chairperson of APRM Governing Council, said President Museveni should disband the current national electoral body and replace it with a new and independent EC which can command public confidence.
- Uganda:Voter data compilation hangs in balance (Daily Monitor, 2009)
- A tendering process to acquire foolproof technology for voter registration and weed out ‘ghosts’ is in jeopardy following allegations of foul play by some Electoral Commission officials,14 months to the next election.
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