Inec gets about 3,000 complaints over registration in Bayelsa

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Bayelsa State, yesterday, said it had received over 3,000 complaints from voters in the state over anomalies discovered during the just concluded voters registration exercise list on display
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The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Engr. Edwin Nwatalari, who disclosed this in Yenagoa, however, described the complaints as not too serious as they had to do with spelling errors and photograph.
He noted that Yenagoa had the highest number of complaints.
“We have no complaint about the registration other than spelling error and photographs. We are processing the complaints and it is going through our server. At the end of the exercise, these anomalies would be corrected,” he said.
According to him, a total of 566,195 eligible voters registered during the exercise even as he disclosed that 330 candidates were fielded by the political parties for elective position in the state.