The Daily Observer (Banjul)
3 June 2011
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has announced that the provincial number of registered voters at the end of the fourth week in the general registration of voters exercise (5th May to 1st June 2011) stood at 686,985. This is contained in a media dispatch issued yesterday by the commission signed by the chairman, Alhaji Mustapha L. Carayol.
The release reads:
The provisional number of registered voters at the end of the fourth week of the General Registration of Voters Exercise (5th May to 1st June 2011) is 686, 985. In exercise of the powers conferred on the Independent Electoral Commission by Section 14 of the Elections Act, it was declared that the General Registration of Voters Exercise will commence on Thursday 5th May 2011 and will end on Friday 17th June 2011.
Consequently, those eligible Gambians who have not yet registered are encouraged to do so in the remaining two weeks. The Commission wants to make it abundantly clear that there will be no extension of the dates for the General Registration of Voters Exercise.
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