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Friday, June 27, 2025

EBC issues special voters’ ballots

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Radhica De Silva
1799 days ago
20200725
EBC returning officers carry special ballot papers after receiving them at the Southern Academy of the Performing Arts in San Fernando on Friday.

EBC returning officers carry special ballot papers after receiving them at the Southern Academy of the Performing Arts in San Fernando on Friday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

In the midst of an im­pend­ing storm and es­ca­lat­ing cas­es of COVID-19, the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion on Friday con­tin­ued its prepa­ra­tion for elec­tions.

From as ear­ly as 9 am, EBC re­turn­ing of­fi­cers went to the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts in San Fer­nan­do to col­lect their spe­cial bal­lots in prepa­ra­tion for spe­cial vot­ing which will take place be­fore the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Dur­ing an in­ter­view, EBC Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope con­firmed that spe­cial bal­lot pa­pers were is­sued to re­turn­ing of­fi­cers in the lead-up to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion. Spe­cial vot­ers, which in­clude those quar­an­tined for COVID-19, will get the op­por­tu­ni­ty to vote on a spe­cial day be­fore Au­gust 10. 

Ap­pli­ca­tions to reg­is­ter as a spe­cial vot­er closed on Ju­ly 17. There are 1,134,136 reg­is­tered elec­tors for the 2020 elec­tions. On Ju­ly 1, the EBC pub­lished its list of elec­tors. Cit­i­zens were asked to check their names by vis­it­ing the EBC’s web­site at https://www.ebctt.com/elec­toral-process/list-of-elec­tors/ to en­sure their names were on the vot­ing list.

There are 19 par­ties con­test­ing the elec­tion and 150 can­di­dates vy­ing for seats in the 41 con­stituen­cies, in­clud­ing four in­de­pen­dent can­di­dates for the seats of Ch­agua­nas East, Moru­ga/Table­land, St Joseph and To­ba­go West.

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