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INEC cancels over 1m voter registrations

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cancelled over one million voter registrations as it observed many double, multiple and ineligible registration discovered in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) held between January 1 and July 31.

INEC’s National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who made the disclosure in a statement, in Abuja, said the irregularities were discovered during the cleaning up of the voter register with the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).

Okoye said, the ABIS for the period Jan. 15 to July 31, 2022 is almost completed. Several double, multiple and ineligible registrants have also been detected and invalidated.

He added that as soon as the process is concluded, the Commission will provide the public with full information, valid registrants will be added to the existing national register of voters and PVC’s for all valid registrants will be available for collection by the end of October and early November.

Source:Rootstv
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