The Electoral Commission (EC) will from Monday, August 9 exhibit the voters register at all polling stations throughout the country to Sunday, August 15, 2010. Both registers compiled from 2004 to 2008, and the one compiled in June 2010 would be on display during the one week exercise, which starts from 7a.n. to 6p.m. The exhibition of the voters register is considered to be a very important exercise considering the perception by political actors that the register is bloated and the need for it to be cleaned up. Officials from the EC are urging the general public to take advantage of the exhibition to check their names in the register and help clean it of all errors. The exhibition of the voters register is an opportunity for all registered voters to check and confirm their participation in the register. Members of the public are reminded that only persons whose names appear in the voters register were eligible to vote in public elections and, therefore, urged all registered voters to endeavour to check their names during the exercise. Persons who had genuine voter ID cards but whose names were inadvertently omitted from the register, would have the opportunity to apply for the inclusion of their names in the register. The exhibition of the exercise is intended to clean the voters register of any errors. Registered voters can, therefore, ask for wrong spelling of names, wrong photographs, and wrong ages and sexes to be corrected. The EC appealed to the general public to volunteer information on deceased relatives and other unqualified people whose names appeared in the register so that their particulars could be expunged. Source: Daily Graphic