Today is the final day for potential voters to get their names on the revised list of electors if they want to cast their ballots in the October 21 local government elections. Chief Elections Officer Ramesh Nanan yesterday urged members of the public who were not clear as to their status to make good use of the opportunity to ensure their names and addresses were properly recorded.
“Go and check your name, particularly those of you who are eager and anxious to vote, so you will have no difficulty on election day,” Nanan said during a telephone interview. During the electoral registration period (September 10-18), electors, first-time voters and especially those who had changed their names and addresses, were advised to visit their registration area office or call the commission’s hotlines, 6271516/0745, to make the relevant enquiries.
Nanan said it was too early to tabulate the data from the various districts to determine the response. He added: “I cannot at this time give you a precise figure as to the number of persons who would have visited during this electoral registration period. From the registration point of view, we are not seeing any great increase in terms of regular normal transaction.”
He said the voters list as of September 10, indicated 1,036,313 were eligible to vote in Trinidad but that figure could change as they took into consideration the transactions over the past ten days and transactions that were not dealt with prior to that date.