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Registration Of Voters
Registration Of Voters
KTM Metro Reporter
July 19, 2017
Kathmandu: The meeting presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav held on July 18, 2017 decided to collect the voters’ names at the 744 local levels for the provincial and federal elections, the news in “gorkhapatra” of today stated. The collection of voter’s names will continue until the date of provincial and federal elections is set, the Radio Nepal morning news stated today.
Political parties and common folks in general have been putting pressure on the Election Commission to amend its decision on collecting voters’ names at the district election offices from July 16, (Sravon 1) to July 30 (Sravon 15) for the provincial and federal elections.
Currently, the voters’ lists have 14.07 million voters’ names with pictures, the Election Commission stated. This number will increased, as the Election Commission has allowed to register the folks that have reached 16 years of age and have secured the citizenship certificates but they have to wait until 18 years of age for voting.
The officials registering the voters’ names have been very civil and cooperative. At the Kathmandu District Election Office, two officials have been registering the forms filled out by the folks registering as voters, and four folks have been working on laptops to register the voters’ names and other description, pictures, and prints of thumbs and index fingers of both hands. They have been under the heavy pressure of folks coming to register their names as voters.
Anybody going to register his/her name as a voter needs to carry the original citizenship certificate, and its photocopy, and a migration certificate, and a certificate of residing in a house if s/he is migrated. Then, s/he needs to fill up a form in which s/he has to give some details such as the level of education s/he has achieved in addition to the information already have in a citizenship certificate. If s/he is a migrant s/he needs to fill out one more form, too.
Then, s/he needs to submit the form with a photocopy of citizenship to the official that will put down the some details in a register book, and then he will put the stamp of the date recorded on the back of a receipt a voter will receive as a proof for getting the ID card at the area s/he stated as the voting place.
Then, s/he needs to take the form to one of the four folks working at the laptops for registering. The folk will enter all the data from the original citizenship certificate into the laptop, and then ask her/him to place a thumb, and then the index finger of both hands on the finger-print-recording machine, and takes a picture for identification. He also registered the signature of a folk registering as a voter signed on the back of the receipt. Voters’ ID card will be distributed at the place where s/he is registered for voting. S/he needs to go with the receipt and the original citizenship certificate to collect the voter ID card.
Four million folks working abroad have no chance of registering as voters. The Election Commission had at one time said that it would do something so that Nepalese working abroad could register their names as voters, and could vote from abroad; obviously, it has done nothing to this end so far.
