Clean the Elector’s lists and Issue Voter ID Cards, says Electoral Reform Effort Group

The Group believes that the Electoral Commission has a moral responsibility to see to it that the coming general elections allows only persons eligible to be on the cleansed electors lists to participate, and be properly identified to do so, in order that the elected government ushered in would have been the outcome of an electoral process which would have been free, more fair and credible, reflecting the conscience of an electorate that will be focused on building Dominica in a peaceful environment.

It would be a show of gross irresponsibility if the Electoral Commission were to continue to sit on the worn-out, valueless and abused cliché that it has, in the past, administered successful general elections which have seen governments from all three(3) major political parties win and lose elections. As the Special Joint Mission of CARICOM, the Commonwealth and the Organization of American States (OAS) has said, “No aspect of electoral frameworks, systems, institutions, planning, management or operations, however well it may have functioned in the past, should be regarded as sacrosanct from reform or modernization. Past performance is not necessarily a reliable guide to future performance.”

We once again call on the Electoral Commission to urgently implement the very realistic and achievable recommendations of the Special Joint Mission of 17th September, 2019 in order to obtain the sanitized electoral list and the issuance of voter ID cards before the next elections.