The Update of the National Voter’s Register in electoral areas across the country, where Local Government Councils by-elections are scheduled to take place, will close today, Tuesday 26th October, 2021 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ugandan citizens of 18 years above and those who have never registered before as voters, who originate or reside in these electoral areas, are encouraged to present themselves at update stations in their respective parishes\/wards and apply for registration as new voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Registered voters who may wish to transfer their voting location are also encouraged to fill the necessary application forms for transfer.\u00a0 The registration of new voters and processing of applications for transfer of voters will not be conducted in the above affected electoral areas after the 26th day of October 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Update of the National Voter’s Register in electoral areas across the country, where Local Government Councils by-elections are scheduled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[128,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG-20211025-WA0261-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4382,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-calls-upon-all-stakeholders-to-participate-in-updating-voters-register-which-ends-tomorrow-october-262021-at-6pm\/","url_meta":{"origin":4388,"position":0},"title":"ELECTORAL COMMISSION CALLS UPON ALL STAKEHOLDERS TO PARTICIPATE IN UPDATING VOTERS REGISTER WHICH ENDS TOMORROW OCTOBER 26,2021 AT 6PM","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The Update of the National Voter's Register in Electoral areas where local Government Councils by-elections are scheduled to take place will be concluded tomorrow Tuesday 26th of October 2021. 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