He described the reports as ‘misleading’ and mere ‘fabrication of lies.’
Commissioner Aiah Mattia said the machine in Tonkolili had developed some problems and had to be taken to Freetown for repairs, adding that it was during this event that people thought that it had disappeared.
He said because of technical problems the machines encounter frequently, NEC had distributed two biometric voter registration machines to each district.
He said only one machine would be in operation at a time per centre and the other would serve as substitute.
The NEC Commissioner said there would be twenty-eight biometric voter registration machines in the entire fourteen Electoral Districts in the country.
He said they were certain that the twenty machines were more than enough for the registration exercise, pointing out that people had complained about the slow pace of the pretesting phase of the biometric exercise.
He said it was high time the public understood that NEC was currently on a pilot phase and problems including administrative would be eminent.
He said as a Commission, they were taking note of all the problems and were mapping out ways of addressing them with the urgency they deserve.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Abdul Samba Brima
Quelle/Source: Awoko, 04.11.2011
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