5 Oct 2018

Fiji official says it's impossible for voters to register twice

From , 6:04 am on 5 October 2018

The Supervisor of Elections in Fiji Mohammed Saneem says it's impossible for voters to be registered twice on the electoral roll.

He was responding to questions about an apparent discrepancy between the number of voters registered with the Fijian Election Office and recent census statistics from the Department of Statistics.

Just over 634 thousand people had registered to vote in the November election by mid September while Fiji's 2017 census shows a population of around 580 thousand people of voting age.

Around 15,000 new voters come on stream every year, according to Mr Saneem who's confident in his office's data and systems.

Mohammed Saneem

Mohammed Saneem Photo: supplied