it's hard for some folks in rural places where the office is far away and only open for a limited time of the day.
How close is the closest office to you and how often is it open?
It's their choice to live where they live. In your country, you are required to go the office, as well. Does Jamaica have a contingency for rural citizens?
The office is open Monday through Friday, until 5pm I think. Just like most government offices
So, they verify your identity? In fact, it sounds like the Jamaican system of actually sending an agent to your home, is more stringent than ours. When you say you want us to just automatically register people, does that mean you want us to send field agents to, what, 300M people's houses??
It's their choice to live where they live. In your country, you are required to go the office, as well. Does Jamaica have a contingency for rural citizens?
The office is open Monday through Friday, until 5pm I think. Just like most government offices
Red - in some other rural parts of America the office is open once a month and are many miles away from these poor folks who don't drive and can't find proper transportation there.
Blue - politicians who are hungry for votes will take care of the cost for transporting people the electoral offices which are usually in the capital town which most Jamaicans go to at least once a week. Some folks in America don't have any reason to visit the spots where the offices are.
A major component of the initiative is an island-wide house-to-house verification of electors, which is slated to get underway in November. The project entails trained and identifiable Verifiers visiting the homes of 1.1 million electors 40 years and older to collect the necessary information, over a four-month period. After the exercise, electors who are identified and confirmed as dead will be removed from the Voters’ List.
Glasspole Brown, Director of Elections, explains that the removal of deceased electors has statistical and financial benefits for taxpayers and will eventually lead to reduced spending on election preparation and more accurate statistics on voter turnout.
“Whenever an election is called, we must prepare for a one hundred percent turnout, that is, all the electors on the list. When we remove the electors confirmed as dead, then we will be able to spend less on elections as we prepare for a more accurate number of voters. Therefore we would be printing fewer ballots and utilizing fewer polling stations, for example,” he said.
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