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400 more Fijians to take part in postal voting

November 5, 2018 6:44 pm

Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem says the FEO quality assurance team have picked up 400 applications that were not processed by the postal team.

These applications were found in emails that have been verified and postal voting forms that were directly verified.

Exercising his powers under Section 7 of the Election Act, Saneem authorized the postal voting applications to be included as valid applications.

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“A large number of these application are from overseas. Local postal now stands at 10,040. Overseas stands at 1, 187 – making the total number of postal applications.”

Saneem adds, quality issuance check is done on all FEO activities.

Postal packages will be sent out by the Fijian Elections Office to these new applicants.