Fraudulent party registrations force EC to issue fingerprint forms
07 Apr 2010, 6:47 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Elections Commission (EC) has released a new political party registration form to avoid a recurrent problem of people being registered for political parties without their knowledge.
President of the EC Fuad Thaufeeq said the commission had uncovered an estimated 900-1100 people registered to political parties without their knowledge, “from all political parties.”
Fuad said the commission had sent notice to all the political parties that they would not accept any other registration form than the new form.
”Before all the parties had their own registration forms,” Fuad said. ”Those forms only required the person’s name and identity card number.”
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