By MUBANGA LUCHEMBETHE UPND and its opposition alliance partners claim that online voter pre-registration and the voters register clean-up processes being and to be conducted by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) respectively, would result in election fraud. Are they right? And how do the processes actually work? An online voter pre-registration exercise during a Covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented. So a lot of Zambians plan to pre-register to vote using online facilities to stay safe.But UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema attacked online voter pre-registration and the subsequent voters register clean-up processes saying these raised the risk of fraud. So, how do the online voter pre-registration and the voters register clean-up processes work? Why does the UPND leader hate the idea? And why did the UPND top leaders and their compromised NGOs opt to legally challenge the ECZ management’s decision over these in the High and Constitutional courts?Besides these, I have lots of other questions. Lately I […]
Why is UPND worried about voters register clean-up?
