Nassau, Bahamas, February 23, 2017 – Public complaint about voter registration officers making the process difficult for them has resulted in those officers being removed. National Security Minister, Dr Bernard Nottage who has responsibility for the Parliamentary Registration Department listened in the House of Assembly yesterday as Tall Pines MP, Leslie Miller gave several accounts of people who have been frustrated, asked to return and sent to other sites just to be registered to vote.
Minister Nottage assured the public during House of Assembly yesterday that are dealing with the repeated complaints. The report is that several of those revising officers, in the lead up to the general elections and where voter registration has been slower than in previous time, have been replaced.
The voter register list now stands at 115,000; the Parliamentary Registration Department says there are 180,000 Bahamians eligible to vote.
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