INEC, stakeholders draft voting rights framework for inmates

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The Independent National Electoral Commission and other stakeholders on Thursday adopted the draft framework on voting rights of inmates.

He said the framework was not a law but a guide to assist stakeholders and enable inmates in custodial centres to cast their votes.The INEC chair said the draft contained suggestions for the national assembly to include in the proposed amendment of the electoral act. “That is what we have come here to do. We came here to validate all these ideas, the deliberations were very robust as all the stakeholders actually did their best,” he said.

 

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