EC Commissioner Tashobya confirms national voters register was taken abroad for cleaning

Election Related Official claim Uganda (national) 12 Nov 2020 Severity: 1/5

Electoral Commission Commissioner Stephen Tashobya said on NBS that the National Voters Register had been taken out of the country by the new supplier of biometric voter verification machines, because the EC lacked the server capacity to download and clean it. He also said the contract to print ballot papers had been awarded and that the EC had answered issues raised by the PPDA, according to ChimpReports.

A national event, not tied to one district.

Official claim: These are the figures given by Electoral Commission (Commissioner Stephen Tashobya); they could not be checked independently.

People named in the reports

Simon Byabakama, Chairperson, Electoral Commission of Uganda (Justice) spoke about it
Stephen Tashobya, Electoral Commission Commissioner spoke about it

Sources

ChimpReports 13 Nov 2020

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