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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB
3. Nature of EMB a valid birth certificate. One of the two witnesses
Independent must be from a different household but from the
same polling district, preferably a neighbor. There
4. No. of Members in EMB is no fee for registering as a voter.
5
Voters are registered to vote at a designated
5. Terms of office polling station, closest to their place of residence.
7 years If voters change their residence and their new
address corresponds to a different polling station
6. EMB Members selected by
Legislature (even if it is within the same constituency), the
voter then needs to re-register.
7. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority
EMB Once registered, the applicant will be provided
with a voter card. The voter cards, issued by the
8. Names of Elections conducted by EMB VEO, are blue for rural areas and red for urban
Luganville Election areas, in the form of a paper booklet. The voter
card has an ID number which is a row and sheet
Sanma Provincial Elections
number. In order to vote, the voter needs to
National Referendum present the voter card at the allocated polling
General Elections station, with no exceptions allowed.
2019 Efate Rural By-Elections Voters who have misplaced their cards will be
able to have them replaced (“duplicates”), for a
9. Titles of Electoral Legislation(s)
Representation of the People Act 1982 200 vatu fee, according to established schedules
set by the registration officers; at headquarters,
(B) ELECTORAL PROCESS issuing of replacements (“duplicates”) is a
continuous process, but it stops two weeks before
1. Total Population as on polling day.
0.28 Million (Feb. 2019)
Anyone who believes they should be allowed to
2. Registered Electors as on vote and whose name is not on the voters list can
0.27 Million (May 2020) ask the PEO to review their information. If they
are still not happy with the PEO’s decision, they
3. Method of voter registration can appeal to the EC. The EC’s decision cannot be
Upon arrival to the registration center, applicants appealed to any other body.
are given a registration form, which must be duly
filled out. All applicants must show their valid 4. Voter Id Card
birth certificate; without a birth certificate it is not Electoral card
possible to be registered as a voter (if an applicant
doesn’t have a birth certificate, they must apply
for one at the corresponding Civil Registry office).
If the applicant has been registered before as a
voter and wants to register again (maybe because
the voter card has been stamped in all spaces or
because the voter wants to change his/her polling
station), the old card must be presented and
handed over to the VEO. Everyone must include in
their forms two witnesses who reside in the same
residential area as themselves, and who also have
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