The Daily Observer (Banjul)
Daily Observer
10 June 2011
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has announced that it has recorded a total of 779,992 registered voters in week five of the general registration of voters currently underway throughout the country, in a media dispatch issued yesterday.
The release reads: The provisional number of registered voters at the end of the fifth week of the General Registration of Voters Exercise (5th May – 8th June 2011) is 779, 992.
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Independent Electoral Commission by Section 14 of the Elections Act, it was declared that the general registration of voters exercise will commence on Thursday 5th May 2011 and end on Friday 17th June 2011.
Consequently, those eligible Gambians who have not yet registered are encouraged to do so in the remaining one week.
The Commission wants to make it abundantly clear that there will be no extension of the dates for the General Registration of Voters Exercise.
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Gambia: IEC – Provisional Number of Registered Voters At 779, 992