Ok, let's have the whole voters' roll on IEC website, then.

's (May 19 - 25, 2019) Sunday Standard newspaper has fingered four opposition politicians as possibly facing election ban because they allegedly supplied wrong addresses to voter registration officials as their principal domicile addresses. The newspaper lists names of other people who are also registered as living at those addresses.

Unless the Sunday Standard has broken the law, in which case the Police would be on their trail by now, the newspaper has shown us that the law permits the contents of the voters' roll to be published! That is what the Sunday Standard has just done - published contents of the voters' roll.

Given the importance of a correctly compiled voters' roll in the coming October 2019 general elections, why would the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) not publish the voters' roll on their website? Surely publishing the complete voters' roll would be in the best interests of the main stake holders in the coming election, namely the voters. The published voters' roll would be an invaluable guide to voters NOT to turn up at the wrong polling station on election day. It would also enable ALL political parties to check and double check their competitors' compliance with the Electoral Act, as seems to have been the case with those who currently have access to the voters' roll.

This is therefore a call to the IEC to publish the voters' roll on their website.

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