An old female voter, Marian Lansanah who resides at 15c Hennessy street New England, in constituency 109 ward 385 on Saturday expressed frustration and disappointment on the way NEC staff were going about the voting process and emphatically said that the National Electoral Commission needs to do more in terms of elections.
The woman who was almost fed up was about to go home, when she came across this reporter.
In an extensive interview after casting her vote, the woman said that she came to the polling station at around 3 a.m. in the morning to secure a convenient position in order to cast her vote for her candidate, hoping that the voting process will start at 7 am but did not start on time.
Speaking to our reporter, she said her concern is that the workers started late and there was a mix-up in the process which simply means that there was no direction as to which polling station she should go to cast her vote. She was directed to five polling centres and was told that her name was not there.
She also said that the people NEC had put in the place, should be responsible, credible and well-trained. What I saw was that these were not properly trained and therefore they misled me,’ she emphasized.
She went further to say that she has sympathy for the ones that are not literate as to what will be there fate.
According to one of the polling staff he said that the voting process is being done in alphabetical order, but the mix up came when there was no communication; meaning the people did not know, that is the way the voting is being done.
She said that she is hoping for peaceful and credible elections and finally she is feeling that inner satisfaction after she has cast her vote.
In another development voter in the same constituency but different polling station were also have similar problems in the sense that this polling station was looking for serial number and not in an alphabetical order, which made voters started grumbling and getting disgusted with the whole process.
Some people were sent to different stations but they were sent back which erupted to confusion in the station.
By Nancy Koroma
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