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

3. Nature of EMB 6. Audit Trail
Independent Not implemented

4. No. of Members in EMB 7. Voting Process
3 Voters cast their votes in the order they arrive.
A voter’s identity and right to vote are checked
5. Terms of office through identity card. Each ballot paper is signed
5 years on the back by the Board Members before it is
handed over to the voter. A voter enters into a dark
6. EMB Members selected by
Supreme Court room to mark her/his preference on the ballot
paper. After marking the choice, the voter returns
7. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority to the table with folded ballot paper and delivers
EMB it to the President who signs at the back of the
ballot. The voter’s cuticle of index finger of the
8. Names of Elections conducted by EMB right hand is marked with ink. The voter drops the
Parliamentary election ballot into a ballot box and the poll officer enters

(B) ELECTORAL PROCESS the word ‘vote’ against the voter’s name in the
electoral register
1. Total Population as on 8. Voter education
6.9 Million (Feb. 2019)

2. Registered Electors as on
4.2 Million (June 2018)

3. Method of voter registration
The voter register is generated in two ways: active
and passive. Active voter registration consists of
a person going personally to register. Citizens that
cumulatively

i) reached 18 before 2012
ii) had never voted before

iii) were in possession of an ID card, had to actively
register with the TSJE electoral registry. Since
2012, passive voter registration consists that
citizens are automatically registered to vote by
extraction of data from the national civil registry
when reaching 18. The list of voters resulting
from passive registration is automatically
extracted from the national civil registry

4. Voter turnout in last National Elections: Total,
Percentage
65.12%

5. Voting Method
Manual marking of Ballots

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