Is the Senatorial Election more important than our health? The chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC) Jerome Korkoya has revealed that official campaign activities for the ensuing Special Senatorial Elections will begin on Thursday November 20, 2014 despite the deadly Ebola outbreak. The NEC boss said the commission has certified 139 candidates to contest the election throughout the country. The NEC chair called all candidates and their supporters to go about their campaign activities in a peaceful manner avoiding rancor and bitter exchanges. He wants the candidates and supporters to use the campaign period to market ideologies and plans for the advancement of ythier counties in particular and Liberia in general. The NEC boss urged candidates and their supporters to observe all public health regulations instituted by the Government of Liberia and health authorities to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease during the course of the campaign. Mr. Korkoya said the NEC has augmented the campaign guidelines to ensure compliance with the national health regulations. Voters will be required and provisions will be made to ensure that they stand three feet apart in queues at all polling centers on Election Day; voters will be required to use cotton buds to ink their thumbs before marking the ballot. He said voters will not share objects such as pens encouraging voters to bring personal pens or where necessary, the Commission will provide pens in polling booths that will be routinely sanitized. But the NEC chair said in parts of the country that may be considered as Ebola hot spots during the conduct of the election, the commission will not hold elections in those areas if the government goes ahead and quarantine them.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:30:27 +0000
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