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Requesting birth certificates of voters would bring challenges
— Fisher
Alicia Dunkley-Willis
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
A significant number of Jamaicans would be robbed of the right to vote if Parliament were to change the law to request would-be voters to produce a birth certificate as proof of age to register, according to Director of Elections Orette Fisher.
The declaration was made during yesterday's sitting of the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at which members supported a recommendation made by Auditor General Pamela Monroe-Ellis for the ECJ to get legal advice on the extent to which it can request proof of age from would-be voters, pointing to inadequate age verification procedures used by the Commission. The auditor general said she made the recommendation "from a point of risk" following her review of the Information System of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2NPJwhY16
— Fisher
Alicia Dunkley-Willis
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
A significant number of Jamaicans would be robbed of the right to vote if Parliament were to change the law to request would-be voters to produce a birth certificate as proof of age to register, according to Director of Elections Orette Fisher.
The declaration was made during yesterday's sitting of the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at which members supported a recommendation made by Auditor General Pamela Monroe-Ellis for the ECJ to get legal advice on the extent to which it can request proof of age from would-be voters, pointing to inadequate age verification procedures used by the Commission. The auditor general said she made the recommendation "from a point of risk" following her review of the Information System of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2NPJwhY16
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