Voter registration starts January 13 |08 January 2014

All eligible voters are being urged to go and verify their names on the register in their own district as from Monday January 13, 2014 when voter registration starts.

Members of the public can go to the different stations across Mahé, Praslin and La Digue which will remain open until Thursday January 30, 2014. They can register from 3pm-6pm Monday to Friday, and from 10am-2pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

However, during the last four days of the exercise – that is from January 27 to 30 -- these same stations will be open between 3pm and 6pm for the purpose of receiving any claim or objection only.
 
Another station at the electoral commission’s office, Room 203, Aarti Building, Mont Fleuri, will remain open for all eligible voters, irrespective of their constituency, to verify their names. The station will open from 10am-noon and from 1pm-6pm Monday to Friday, and from 10am-2pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

Members of the public are reminded that the station at Aarti Building is reserved for inspection only. All claim and objections should be done in the voters’ respective districts.
Members of the public, especially those who have just turned 18, those who have just married or changed their names through divorce, and those who have been living abroad, are asked to bring along necessary papers and documents when they come to verify their names.

The voters’ registration exercise is a legal requirement and must be done at the beginning of each year.

The places where the voters’ register can be inspected in the various electoral areas are as follows: Anse Aux Pins (Anse Aux Pins school); Anse Boileau (Anse Boileau community centre); Anse Etoile (Anse Etoile community centre); Anse Royale (Anse Royale secondary school, Anse Royale police station); Au Cap (Pointe Au Sel church, Lenstiti Kreol, St Joseph); Baie Lazare (Baie Lazare creche);

 Baie Ste Anne (Baie Ste Anne community centre); Beau Vallon (Beau Vallon crèche); Bel Air (Bel Air community centre); Bel Ombre (Bel Ombre community centre); Cascade (Cascade community centre);

 English River (English River school); Glacis (Glacis office of district administrator, North East Point Rehabilitation Centre); Grand Anse Mahé (Grand Anse Mahé school, La Misère School); Grand Anse Praslin (Grand Anse Praslin community centre); Inner Islands (La Digue office of district administrator); Les Mamelles (Les Mamelles community centre); Mont Buxton (La Rosière school); Mont Fleuri (Faculty of Education – ex-NIE); Plaisance (Plaisance office of district administrator); Pointe Larue (Pointe Larue crèche); Port Glaud (Port Glaud school); Roche Caïman (Roche Caïman community centre); St Louis (Belonie school – ex-St John Bosco); Takamaka (Takamaka office of district administrator).
All electoral areas (Aarti Building, Room 203, Mont Fleuri).

Meanwhile, the swearing ceremony for registration officers for Praslin and La Digue will be conducted today in the Baie-Ste Anne community centre at 9.30am. For Mahé, the ceremony will take place on Friday January 10, 2014 at 1.30pm in Room 3 at the International Conference Centre (ICCS).