Overall voter registration activities should be under the exclusive control of the Election Management Body. Shared institutional responsibility between the government and the independent election body creates areas of friction and has the potential to impair the CNEs capacity to independently conduct the polls. For instance, the CNE, the supervisory body with overall responsibility for organizing elections, does not have the legal mandate to manage the critical voter registration process which falls under the responsibility of the Government. Changes to the law should be introduced to allow the CNE control of the entire cycle of production of the voters’ list alongside the introduction of a systematic and permanent yearly voters’ update as foreseen in the electoral law. The CNE and CREs should have full mandate to carry out all voter registration hence strengthening its independency and the neutrality of the register. CRE’s would need to have a permanent structure in order to allow for full electoral cycle activities.