The Electoral Commission has extended the Special Voting Exercise to Sunday December 4, to allow special voters who could not vote to do so.
Voting for this category was challenged with missing names and other irregularities today which disenfranchised some security officers and others who turned out to cast their ballots.
The EC’s continuation of the special voting was decided after the Commission met representatives of the political parties in an emergency meeting Thursday.
Special voting is a special dispensation under the electoral laws that allows registered voters who will not be able to present themselves at their polling stations on voting day as a result of the roles they will play in the elections to vote on a date before the rest of the electorate vote on the date set for the elections.
The category of people who are allowed to do special voting include security personnel, officials of the EC and journalists.
The main polls are slated for December 7.
