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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

er enters the polling booth and marks a ‘v’ under
the box of preferred candidate. The ballot paper is
folded into half and dropped into a ballot box. The
little finger of the voter is marked with indelible ink
to avoid multiple voting.

7. Voter Education system for different category of
voters Best Practices
Section 4C of the National Elections Act, Cap. 343,
vests NEC with the responsibility of providing and
Coordinating Voters Education. Voters Education
is essential to enable members of the public to ex- Provision of Voter Education via Advertising Vehicle
ercise their Constitutional rights to vote.
The NEC is tasked by law, since 2004, with voter
training and education; such voter education that
took place prior to 2004 was undertaken by NGOs.

The ZEC is tasked by law with the promotion and
co-ordination of voter education; the ZEC accredits
voter education programmes.

8. Pictures of Electoral Processes/Voter Education

Commission official Titus Mwanzalila giving voter educa-
tion at Geita Primary School in Geita

Citizens reading voter education leaflets (about Improv-
ing the Permanent Voter Register) issued by officials of
the National Electoral Commission.

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