“The beauty with these kits is that they have the ability to work in areas where there is no electricity and no communication network. They have spare batteries which will enable them to work for long hours also in areas not connected to the power grid,” he said.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has received 60,000 voter verification biometric machines which will be used in the general elections early next year.
Justice Simon Byabakama, the EC chairperson while receiving the kits at Entebbe International Airport today in the wee hours of Monday, said they are also expecting another consignment of 40,000 kits which will be coming soon.
“We intend to have free and fair elections and, in that regard, these biometric machines will help us in ensuring that each voter is entitled to one vote,” he said.
Byabakama said they are now going to start sensitizing the polling officials on how to use these kits.
“The beauty with these kits is that they have the ability to work in areas where there is no electricity and no communication network. They have spare batteries which will enable them to work for long hours also in areas not connected to the power grid,” he said.
The electoral commission last week concluded the parliamentary nominations where hundreds of candidates were legally nominated to vie in the forthcoming elections.
And for the presidential candidates, eight candidates were also registered and are currently traversing the country hunting for support. They include; the incumbent, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (NRM), Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (NRM), Rtd. Gen. Grigory Mugisha Muntu (ANT), Joseph Mabiriizi (Conservative Party), Nathan Nandala Mafabi (FDC), Mubarak Munyagwa (Common Man’s Party), Robert Kasibante (National Peasant’s Party) and Frank Bulirwa (Revolutionary People’s Party).
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