Voters in ward 2 area of Iabu LLG at Asuramba care-centre in Bogia District became frustrated when they learned that most eligible voters weren’t able to cast their votes because their names were not on the roll.
Former President of Iabu LLG, Nelson Mambote, says they were told only 15% of the names were included in the roll update of 2019.
Iabu LLG has around 800 in population, 600 of which are eligible voters but only 15% of the eligible voters’ names were included in the roll update.
Mambote says the national government and the PNG Electoral Commission are depriving the rights of the citizen to cast their votes.
Most of the names of elderly people and the young voters who have reached 18 years or above in the last five years were not in the roll update.
He says this is the time for the younger population to exercise their rights through the ballot papers yet they were denied that right.
Mambote further said the problem lies with the national government and the PNG Electoral office who should have carried out the roll update.
He said the national government and the PNG Electoral office had five years to work on the roll updates.
Adding that successful governments have not improved and learned from the previous elections to correct the flaws. Instead the same problems are being repeated every five years.
Mambote says local leaders in the community couldn’t contain the bulk of the voting population’s frustrations when it was spilt out.
Much of the blame for this whole mess was placed on both the government and the electoral commission.
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