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Week 7 Re-Registration Numbers Ticked Upwards
posted (August 21, 2018)
The Elections and Boundaries Department says that up to Saturday, One Hundred and One Thousand, and Fourteen (101,014) persons had applied to re-register.

That's after Ten Thousand, One Hundred and Forty-One (10,141) applicants showed up to register in week 7, which ran from August 12th to the 18th. Week 7's numbers were a little better than week 6's which - at nine thousand, three hundred and twenty (9,320) applicants - was the lowest so far.

And week 8 started out a little bumpy in the Mesopotamia division where at the Grace Primary registration center - the exercise had to be taken outside. Seems the school administration needed to start cleaning in time for the new semester - so they were pushed out.

But, after a little open air re-registration, the situation was somewhat resolved as they were transferred to the school's library across the street. A release from the Elections and Boundaries Department says, quote, "unforeseen circumstances have forced them to move the Registration Center…to Grace Primary Library…"

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