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Voter Registration:ELECAM Seduces Women

Over 15,000 women have been registered in the one-month campaign to register 30,000 female voters before April 8, 2016 as ELECAM chases women in churches and markets.

As of March 18, 2016, 15,419 women have been registered on voter registers by the elections management body, Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, within the framework of its ongoing one-month campaign to register 30,000 women voters.  Launched on March 1, 2016, under the theme “March: Women’s Month, ELECAM Targets Women”, the campaign has transformed ELECAM’s teams nationwide into “fishers of women” to meet the target before the campaign ends on April 8, 2016.

ELECAM officials justify the operation with the argument that women have demographic superiority in the country but, paradoxically, are less present on electoral rolls. Speaking to Cameroon Tribune yesterday, March 22, 2016, the Communication Service Head of ELECAM’s Centre Regional Branch, Michèle Mekeme, said their strategy has known a fundamental shift from awareness messages over mainstream media to proximity “one-to-one” sensitisation, in a bid to bring women towards ELECAM. “We are chasing women wherever we may find them to make them register,” she said. The strategy is paying off, she said, because over 2,579 women have been registered in the Centre Region, as of yesterday, since the start of the operation. In the special deployment, churches, markets, women’s associations and neighbourhoods are priority targets. However, the operation is marred by several socio-cultural barriers. Embarrassingly, where women are met in their numbers like in the markets, most do not own National Identity cards. More so, registering some women requires passing through their spouses for prior permission.

Meanwhile, overall statistics since the start of the 2016 voter registration exercise in January reveal that ELECAM has not been doing poorly. While 16,128 new voters have been registered in the Centre Region, 136,209 voters have been registered nationwide, as of March 17, 2016.

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