The re-registration exercise is wrapping up its second week - and - the projection is that close to 30 thousand voters have already gone through the process.
The main complaint is that the process has been moving too slowly - but that's for folks who don't have to go too far to reach the re-registration center.
But, for those who live in rural communities down south - it can be a whole other story! They live in remote and disconnected communities and while the Elections and Boundaries staff goes into some villages - they can't go to all, after all there are about 200 of them in Belize!
So for these voters - who are stripped of their franchise when re-registration begins, getting it back is not quite as easy as 1-2-3.
PGTV spoke to one resident of Graham Creek in Toledo West who discussed his three hour ordeal just to get to the re-registration center in a nearby village:
Wil Maheia, reporter
"You walk from Graham Creek to Crique Sarco to get registered."
Alberto Coc, Graham Creek resident
"Yes."
Wil Maheia
"And how many hours is that?"
Alberto Coc
"3 hours with my wife."
Wil Maheia
"When you get to Crique Sarco what happened?"
Alberto Coc
"No pass when I reach at 4pm. So I went back again. I left about 4:30 and reach my house at about 7pm in the night."
Wil Maheia
"So they didnt register you? You walk all the way - 6 hours going and coming and when you get there they tell you that the office is closed?"
Alberto Coc
"Yes. So now Mr. Mike say that he will pay the trip to go in town. So the Crique Sarco bus took us yesterday. So that's why I told my village to come in town yesterday to do the registration. So that's why nobody was in my village yesterday."
We note that the round trip walk from Graham Creek to Crique Sarco is on average about 6 hours.
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