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246 recommendations
Recommendation 10 (Voter Registration) Kenya 2007
by: EU

Voters should be registered to vote at the place of their residence. Voters should also be required to vote at the polling centre where they have registered and vote by showing an identity card, and not allowed to vote anywhere else apart from in exceptional circumstances such as polling officers working outside their constituency.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 11 (Voter Registration) Kenya 2007
by: EU

Cooperation between the ECK and the Registrar of the persons should be improved and civil registration should take place at the constituency level in order to allow the ECK to produce voters’ lists, which are extracts from the national voter register for a particular polling station.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 12 (Voter Registration) Kenya 2007
by: EU

The voter registration database should be developed on the national level and new registrations should be effected at least on constituency level, outside of the registration drives, with constituency registration offices fully computerized so that new entries can immediately be checked whether on the voter register or not in order to improve the process and avoid double and multiple registration.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 13 (Voter Registration) Kenya 2007
by: EU

Clear and detailed provisions should be drafted to define the maximum number of registered voters per polling station.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 3 (Voter Registration) Timor-Leste 2012
by: EU

The EU EOM recommends that the National Parliament amend existing legislation so as to extend the authority of STAE, which already maintains the most comprehensive inventory of the voting age population, to allow it to assume the additional responsibility of maintaining a permanent civil register. This measure would not only simplify the current practice of maintaining two parallel databases and two different types of identification document, but would also, after an initial quite costly registration drive, provide a more reliable and costeffective system for maintaining a register of Timorese citizens. To facilitate the cleaning of the register, suco and aldeia chiefs could be instructed to inform STAE district offices periodically about newborn and deceased persons as well as those who have changed their residence. Voter lists extracted from such a unified civil register would undoubtedly be more up-to-date, accurate and complete than the present electoral register.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 18 (Voter Registration) Senegal 2012
by: EU

L’inefficacité des dispositions de radiation du fichier électoral, notamment des électeurs décédés, conduit la MOE UE à recommander la mise en place d’un cadre légal afin : (i) de considérer systématiquement les actes de décès répertoriés par les chefs de village ou les mairies ; et (ii) de s’appuyer sur les recommandations à long terme de l’audit du fichier électoral, dont la prise en compte des faits d’état civil et leur authentification par les services de l’état civil et la DAF.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 19 (Voter Registration) Senegal 2012
by: EU

Les parties prenantes devraient s’interroger sur la suppression des cartes d’électeur, au profit de la Carte Nationale d’Identité (CNI), pour voter. Dans la situation actuelle, la MOE UE recommande, comme proposé par la CENA et par l’audit du fichier électoral, que les cartes d’électeur non retirées, issues des inscriptions antérieures à la dernière révision exceptionnelle, soient détruites selon un cadre légal à adopter.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 20 (Voter Registration) Senegal 2012
by: EU

Malgré le caractère volontaire de l’inscription sur les listes électorales, la MOE UE considère que la sous-représentation manifeste de « l’électorat 18-23 ans» traduit une défaillance importante du fichier actuel. La MOE UE recommande que les mêmes efforts déployés lors de la refonte du fichier électoral en 2005-2006 soient reconduits, à savoir : (i) la possibilité d’une demande conjointe de la CNI et de la carte d’électeur lors de la période d’inscription exceptionnelle sur les listes électorales ; (ii) le déploiement additionnel de commissions administratives d’inscription dans les zones les moins accessibles ; et (iii) la facilitation de l’accès aux CADCE selon les mêmes dispositions que pour les BV (moteur de recherche sur internet, service SMS et centre d’appel).


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 21 (Voter Registration) Senegal 2012
by: EU

En étroite collaboration avec le CVS, il est nécessaire de mettre en place un dispositif efficace et transparent visant à clarifier les états de distribution des cartes d’électeur. Il conviendrait d’y inclure les cartes de l’étranger pour un bilan plus exhaustif.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 22 (Voter Registration) Senegal 2012
by: EU

La CENA devrait jouer son rôle de supervision et de contrôle du processus d’une manière plus proactive, en alertant le cas échéant sur l’insuffisance des pratiques des AA et de la DGE, et en usant de ses propres relevés par une approche méthodologique, commune à celle des AA et de la DGE, sur les états de distribution des cartes.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 23 (Voter Registration) Senegal 2012
by: EU

Il conviendrait d’inscrire, dans la loi, la pérennisation du CVS, dans le but de consolider la synergie entre les parties prenantes, et de permettre l’implication de ce comité à l’ensemble du processus. Dans ce cadre, les comités électoraux locaux et le CVS formeraient une véritable structure de dialogue entre l'administration électorale et les parties prenantes, respectivement au niveau des collectivités locales et au niveau national.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 2 (Voter Registration) Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of the 2011
by: EU

Destinataire - CENI
Champ d'actions - Fichier électoral
Délais - Court terme
Essentielle - Audit du fichier
Objectifs - Transparence et crédibilité du fichier électoral.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 3 (Voter Registration) Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of the 2011
by: EU

Destinataire - CENI
Champ d'actions - Fichier électoral
Délais - Moyen terme
Essentielle - Révision du fichier électoral.
Objectifs - Inclusivité et correction du fichier électoral (suppression des doublons) et mise à jour.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 4 (Voter Registration) Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of the 2011
by: EU

Destinataire - CENI
Champ d'actions - Fichier électoral
Délais - Long terme
Essentielle - Révision du fichier électoral.
Souhaitable - Mise en place d’une structure opérationnelle implantée de manière continue au niveau local afin d’assurer la tenue d’un registre électoral permanent.
Objectifs - Etablissement d’un registre électoral permanent.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 9 (Voter Registration) Nicaragua 2011
by: EU

Just as its predecessors did in 2001 and 2006, the EU EOM considers it essential to the electoral process that National Voter Register be inclusive, accurate and reliable. In order to ensure this, the register, which falls under the responsibility of the CSE, will need to be cleansed of entries for deceased citizens, and displayed for prolonged periods of time, to enable citizens to check the accuracy of their entries. To be successful, this undertaking will need to be carried out in good will and with sufficient means.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 10 (Voter Registration) Nicaragua 2011
by: EU

The EU EOM considers it positive that civil registration – and therefore also electoral registration - be a permanent process. However, the practical means to enable citizens to register must also be available on a permanent basis, and one way that this could be ensured would be to keep municipal civil registration offices open on a permanent or regular basis, rather than rely on the opening of municipal electoral councils (CEMs) in the lead-up to elections.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 11 (Voter Registration) Nicaragua 2011
by: EU

The CSE is legally bound to register all eligible citizens without discrimination, and to facilitate the corresponding documentation. To this effect, it would be positive were the CSE to adopt the necessary measures to inform citizens in a timely manner of the status of their registration applications, and if it ceased to delegate its functions, not least that of distributing identity cards, to any political party or to the Citizens’ Power Councils.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 19 (Voter Registration) Tunisia 2011
by: EU

Le législateur tunisien devrait établir un système unique d’attribution des bureaux de vote (BV) pour des électeurs inscrits volontaires, et supprimer les BV spéciaux, afin de souligner la responsabilité qui incombe à chaque citoyen désirant voter de se manifester auprès de l’administration pour être inscrit sur les listes électorales.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 20 (Voter Registration) Tunisia 2011
by: EU

Le principe du vote des Tunisiens de l’étranger devrait être maintenu uniquement pour les élections nationales, mais reformé au profit d’un vote par procuration et/ou par voie postale et/ou par internet.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 21 (Voter Registration) Tunisia 2011
by: EU

Le droit de vote des membres des forces de sécurité, qui sont des citoyens à part entière, doit être garanti.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 22 (Voter Registration) Tunisia 2011
by: EU

Une réduction significative du nombre d’électeurs par BV pourrait améliorer la fluidité des procédures de vote et réduire le taux d’erreurs lors du remplissage des procès-verbaux.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 11 (Voter Registration) Zambia 2011
by: EU

The Electoral Commission could build on the success of the recent mobile voter registration exercise by reviewing the voter register as soon as practicable. This could include efforts to expunge anomalies from the database such as the details of deceased persons or corrections of clerical errors. A system to enable those eligible to register, or those that want to change their details, to do so on a continuing basis would ensure that management of the register is in line with legal provisions.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 22 (Voter Registration) Nigeria 2011
by: EU

INEC should envisage improving the quality of the voters’ register by eliminating double registration entries and making adjustments. Updating the register should be a continuous process. The Electoral Act provision of closing the update of the register 30 days before the election date should be adhered to. The voters’ register should be made readily available to political parties, other stakeholders as well as the public at large.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 25 (Voter Registration) Niger 2011
by: EU

Le Fichier électoral nécessite une révision fondamentale en accord avec toutes les institutions concernées. Cette révision devrait s’appuyer sur la reforme en cours de l’état-civil afin d’intégrer un maximum de personnes dans le nouveau fichier. Les listes électorales doivent être disponibles et affichées bien en vue dans plusieurs endroits de la circonscription afin d’assurer leur révision en amont des élections. La liste électorale définitive devrait être affichée dans chaque BV.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 26 (Voter Registration) Niger 2011
by: EU

Le système de garde et de distribution des cartes d’électeur devrait être révisé afin de garantir leur disponibilité pour les électeurs lors des scrutins.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 27 (Voter Registration) Niger 2011
by: EU

Devenir cohérent, fonctionnel et sécurisé. En particulier, le budget des commissions administratives en charge de la distribution doit être revu pour ne pas abandonner cette fonction aux chefs des villages/quartiers.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 7 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

Pending the successful outcome of post-Referendum talks with the north regarding citizenship, the future Government of the independent Southern Sudan state should enact a citizenship law, and include in both it and the draft electoral law, the establishment of basic voter eligibility for participation in elections at all levels. Ethnic or tribal criteria should be avoided in determining voter eligibility. Current or recent residence rather than family history should be the central criterion.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 8 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

The future Government should conduct a new census as soon as is feasible following independence in order to accurately count its citizens, which will also take proper account of the recent moves of southerners from the northern states to Southern Sudan.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 9 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

The authority in charge of national statistics should either establish or continue existing means to analyse census data in order to take account of birth/fertility/mortality rates, etc., as a means to accurately project population trends and movements in inter-census years.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 10 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

Armed with a new census, the future GoSS should establish a functioning civil registry/national ID card system, using modern digital technology. The civil registry should be constructed in a manner, and with the appropriate national and regional infrastructure, that allows GoSS to link data from hospitals, morgues and traditional leaders in order to constantly update all births, deaths and name change data. National ID cards should be issued to all citizens upon reaching the age of 16, re!issued every 10 years, where the citizen is required to both approach the civil registry for card issuance and also to inform the civil registry of residence changes.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 11 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

In advance of the first electoral cycle post!independence, the future electoral management body of Southern Sudan should liaise with both the national statistics authority and the future civil registry body to use both updated census and civil registry data to accurately estimate the requirement for both voter registration and polling locations. The standard of one registration/polling centre for every 2000 voters should continue to apply, with the proviso that no village with a population exceeding 500 expected eligible voters should be more than 5km from a registration/polling location.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 12 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

Depending on the future election system established by the GoSS for parliamentary and local-level elections, an extensive boundary delimitation exercise should be conducted. As a first step, the electoral management body should conduct a draft exercise, using the census data that respects the international standard of one elected representative per equal number of citizens. The second step should involve a wide consultative process on the initial draft that allows stakeholders such as traditional leaders to comment on the appropriateness of the proposed boundaries and to take proposed changes into account.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 13 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

Once boundary delimitation is completed, the future electoral management body can approach the first voter registration for the first electoral cycle in one of two ways. Under the first “passive” option, the civil registry body could generate the draft voter register automatically from the civil registry data, using the residence/address data in the civil registry and the list of registration/polling centres to assign voters automatically to polling centres. An extensive exhibition period should follow the publication of the register in order to allow citizens to check whether they have been included in the register, and to make claims for inclusion or reassignment to more appropriate polling centres. This is the preferred option. Under such a system, there is no need for the issuance of voter registration cards, as the national ID card will be used to identify voters on polling day.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 14 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

Under the second “active” option, and in particular if issuance of national ID cards has not been rolled out nationwide in time for the first electoral cycle, the electoral management body could launch a voter registration exercise that requires citizens to attend a voter registration centre in order to register to vote and to be assigned to a polling centre, and in order to be issued with a voter card. As with the first option, an extensive exhibition period should follow, to allow voters to make claims for inclusion, or changes in their registration data, or to object to the inclusion of another voter. The principle of “you vote where you register” should be applied under this option.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 15 (Voter Registration) South Sudan 2011
by: EU

Under either scenario, the final voters register for the first set of elections should be made publicly available sufficiently far in advance of the vote to allow for civil society bodies to conduct an audit and publish their findings.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation Voter Registration (Voter Registration) Uganda 2011
by: EU

Another measure that would increase public trust in the electoral process is the creation of a new National Voter Register. Public display periods both before and after cleansing which are adequately communicated to the public in both urban and rural areas, and completion of the final assignment of polling stations at least one month before polling day, should, if communicated to the electorate, also enhance their confidence in future electoral processes. The use of an identity card system or voting document would assist greatly in the polling process.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation Constituency Delimitation (Voter Registration) Uganda 2011
by: EU

Once the 2012 census figures are published, the Electoral Commission will require adequate resources to fulfil its constitutional obligation to demarcate electoral boundaries, so that their sizes are as equal as possible to the population quota, taking into special account densely populated areas.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation Voter Registration (Voter Registration) Uganda 2011
by: EU

An amendment to the law to enable the registration of those who turn 18 before Election Day but after the close of the register would ensure full enfranchisement of the electorate. This could be further supported by programmes, initiated by the Electoral Commission, to ensure the registration of all those eligible to vote, including those in institutions such as hospitals, or those held in prison, whether on remand or following conviction.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 2 (Voter Registration) Chad 2011
by: EU

La MOE UE recommande fermement à la CENI que tout nouveau recensement électoral ou toute mise à jour du recensement de 2010 soient élaborés avec l’appui d’une cartographie électorale et d’une codification des BV qui permettent de produire une liste provisoire des BV adaptée aux besoins géographiques de la population et aux critères du code électoral, ainsi qu’une LEPI facile à être découpée en listes électorales par BV. Egalement, pour tout nouveau recensement électoral ou toute mise à jour du recensement actuel, la CENI devra s’investir dans la sélection et la formation homogène et de qualité des agents recenseurs recrutés. Sans l’adoption de ces mesures, les problèmes rencontrés lors de l’identification des BV, la confection des listes électorales et même la distribution des cartes d’électeurs lors des législatives du 13 février risquent de se reproduire dans les élections à venir. L’opinion de la MOE UE est que l’introduction de ces mesures, qui auront sans doute un certain impact budgétaire, n’induit pas de changements législatifs.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 3 (Voter Registration) Chad 2011
by: EU

La MOE UE rappelle à la CENI qu’il est de la plus grande importance que la liste des BV soit publiée et distribuée suffisamment à l’avance aux différents démembrements de la CENI pour leur permettre de compléter à temps les préparatifs du scrutin. La CENI et le BPE ont également la responsabilité de publier et de distribuer les listes électorales conformément au chronogramme. Finalement, la remise des cartes d’électeurs doit être faite sur une base individuelle, avec l’appui des listes de distribution permettant de contrôler l’identité du titulaire, et au cours d’une période suffisamment prolongée pour que tout électeur raisonnablement diligent qui le désire puisse avoir l’opportunité de la retirer. Une campagne de sensibilisation des électeurs à la radio sur les délais, les procédures et les lieux de remise des cartes serait de la plus grande utilité.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 28 (Voter Registration) Cote d'Ivoire 2010
by: EU

La liste électorale définitive devrait être affichée dans chaque BV.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 29 (Voter Registration) Cote d'Ivoire 2010
by: EU

La liste électorale devrait être mise à jour régulièrement, en collaboration avec les institutions de l’Etat qui ont été impliquées dans le processus d’identification tels que l’INS ou l’ONI:
i. toutes les réclamations présentées après la distribution des cartes d’électeurs et cartes d’identité devraient être prises en compte et résolues.
ii. la phase de réclamation pour les électeurs présents sur la liste grise devrait être ré-ouverte.
iii. l’obtention de la carte d’électeur devrait être gratuite.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 11 (Voter Registration) Tanzania 2010
by: EU

An extensive review of the voters’ register should be undertaken to ensure better quality, greater reliability and accuracy. The development of a civil registry, the introduction of an accessible and free of charge national identification card and a larger period of time for public exhibition of the register would significantly improve the quality of the voter register for future elections.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 12 (Voter Registration) Tanzania 2010
by: EU

In regard to the Zanzibar voters’ registration process, the pre-requisite of holding a Zanzibar Identification Card, attached to a 36 month residency requirement, should be reviewed in light of the difference of treatment between Tanzanian citizens registered on the mainland and Zanzibar. The discretionary powers attributed to local authorities (the shehas) in the proof of residency process should also be reviewed. The voters’ register should be inclusive, residency requirements should be further shortened while special attention should also be dispensed to the registration of youths and university students.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 13 (Voter Registration) Tanzania 2010
by: EU

Political parties should receive periodic and timely information on voter register additions, corrections and deletions, and they should receive copies of the voter register well in advance of elections.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 21 (Voter Registration) Pakistan 2008
by: EU

The ECP should produce an accurate and complete electoral roll, and consider the possibility of this being subject to continuous updating. The ECP should work with National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to ensure incorporation of any entries not captured through its own enumeration (either from a new enumeration or the one undertaken for the Electoral Roll 07). The data captured should be subject to a comprehensive nationwide check for duplicates.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 22 (Voter Registration) Pakistan 2008
by: EU

There should be greater coordination between the ECP and other state agencies, over information necessary for revision of the electoral roll, for example removal of the deceased and persons declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 23 (Voter Registration) Pakistan 2008
by: EU

The ECP should ensure that the display period is well publicised, that the draft electoral roll is available at multiple sites within a constituency, and that the process of corrections is accessible and efficient.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 24 (Voter Registration) Pakistan 2008
by: EU

Procedures for changes in the electoral roll made under Section 18 of the Electoral Rolls Act 1974 should be clearly defined with regard to due process, and should be fully subject to justification and scrutiny.


Recommendation status: recommended

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Recommendation 25 (Voter Registration) Pakistan 2008
by: EU

The ECP should make strenuous efforts to secure enrolment by 18 year olds.


Recommendation status: recommended

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