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Gecom needs to timely educate the electorates

Mar 02, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I couldn’t underestimate or refuse to listen to the validity of an interesting conversation that I overheard listening to some vocal folks on the very important use of our national identification cards; particularly on Election Day.
It struck me to think thereafter, that an unfortunate scenario can develop, if GECOM does not timely and adequately ventilate the message to the public, especially capturing the average citizen regarding the use of the correct identification card on polling day. The fact that most of the eligible voters are supposed to be in possession of two ID cards, considering the one from the last elections and the acquisition of another for the upcoming elections will test the prospective voter’s awareness as against the habitual convenience in the daily use of the ID cards.
My own experience, and I suppose the same with many, is that I continue to use my old ID card for almost every transaction that warrants its usage, at the expense of preserving the new one; since there is no objection and the two having some similar features.
The point is that using the old ID card so often can result in it easily remaining in the wallet or purse of persons arriving to vote on polling day and only to be frustratingly rejected, since it is the new ID number that will have to correspond with the voters’ list. The next and even worse proposition is that the prospective voters may never return to vote, considering the long queues that they may have to endure in addition to other challenges that may arise on the day.
Every vote will be important and so will be GECOM’S expected dissemination of timely and continuing information to the nation.
Elroy Stephney

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