Electoral authorities in Solomon Islands have recorded 60,000 duplicate registrations on the provisional electoral roll with one person reportedly registering ten times across several different constituencies.
Chief Electoral Officer of the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission, Moses Saitala, speaks to voters about the Biometric Voter Registration update exercise in Honiara Solomon Islands. 12 August 2018. Photo: Solomon Islands Electoral Commission
The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation reports the chief electoral officer, Mose Saitala, saying many people tried to register multiple times but his officers were entering only their last registration onto the final roll.
Mr Saitala told the national broadcaster his office was taking these attempts to defraud the system seriously and would be reporting all offenders to police.
He said their actions had shown that they have no respect for the laws of the country and should be detained.
