Work on election roll underway

WORK on updating the electoral roll for the 2020 Bougainville election is currently underway.
According to Bougainville Electoral Commissioner George Manu, the roll display and registration of eligible voters had already been completed in most of the 33 constituencies in the autonomous region.
“As of today, most of the assistant returning officers have already returned their field work data to either our head office in Buka or through our regional offices in Arawa and Buin,” Manu said.
He said the roll display and registration of new eligible voters was done by the ward recorders. The ward recorders used the 2019 Bougainville referendum roll to update the electoral roll that will be used in the ABG election.
“Upon receiving the field works, the assistant returning officers (AROs) of the respective constituencies will do quality checks on them to ensure that ward recorders have thoroughly done their tasks in registering and updating the list of voters,” Manu said.
“The entering of these data will commence shortly after the completion of the quality checks.
“Once the quality check is complete, we will then proceed with the data entry exercise.
“This is the time where the data processing officers will be either entering the names of the new voters, deleting the names of those that are not supposed to be on the roll or editing the details of those that may have not been entered correctly on the working roll. The entering of data from North Bougainville will be done in Buka while for Central, it will be done in Arawa.
“For the constituencies in South Bougainville, their data entry will take place at our south regional office in Buin town. Once this exercise is complete, all data from south and central Bougainville will be transferred to Buka.