[UgaBYTES] NRM registration goes hi-tech

[Mwathi Francis]

The registration must have been a success as the party realized 7.9
million members out of a target of 9.5 million. The incumbent
president won the last election with a total of about 4.1 million
votes. Did the use of technology pay dividends?

On 1/11/10, Sandra Nassali <snassali at ugabytes.org> wrote:
> The National Resistance Movement (leading political party in Uganda)
> yesterday launched a computerised registration system that will store
> physiological data of its members.
> The biometric system, which registers the human fingerprints and faces,
> intends to eliminate double registration of voters during party primary
> elections.
>
> The digitalised registration system starts today with top 500 party members
> who arrive in Kampala for the National Executive Committee meeting which
> starts tomorrow.
>
> While addressing journalists at his office in Nakasero, the Secretary
> General, Mr Amama Mbabazi, said with the computerised system, double voting
> among the party members during party elections will end. “With this system,
> we shall have no complaints of rigging because there will be no double
> registration of members,” he said.
>
> The ruling party has been facing a problem of its members contesting as
> independent candidates after losing primary elections due to alleged rigging
> of elections, through double voting. But Mr Mbabazi said with the new
> system, which is expected to roll-out to all party members in the country,
> will bring confidence in the party’s electoral system. “It’s the beginning
> of the system and starting tomorrow, it’s a trial. But we plan to spread it
> out to all party members,” he said. The members of NEC, which is the NRM’s
> policy organ, will meet starting tomorrow in State House Entebbe for three
> days in preparation for the 2011 general elections.
>
>
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Francis Mwathi
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