Comments on Congo Siasa: Troubles with the registration of voters

Thanks, Monique - I'll put this up on the blog...

2011-05-16T21:33:29.310-07:00

Thanks, Monique - I'll put this up on the blog. I think Okapi announced the Kasai Oriental figures.

Rev. Mulunda-Nyanga rattled off a list of stats at...

2011-05-16T17:26:50.898-07:00

Rev. Mulunda-Nyanga rattled off a list of stats at CSIS this afternoon:

- CENI's goal is to register 12 million (more? total?) by mid-July.

- In Kinshasa, CENI's goal is to register 3.5 million voters (registration has not yet begun there.)
- CENI has reached its goal to register 1.4 million in Bas-Congo.
- Goal of 3.5 mil in Bandundu (at 1.6 mil now)
- Goal of 3.5 mil in Equateur (at 1.7 now)
- Goal of 3.9 mil in Orientale (at 1.17 now)
- Goal of 2.9 mil in N Kivu (at 1.3 now with 0 registrations in Walikale due to security concerns and lack of infrastructure)
- Goal of 2 mil in S Kivu (at 968,000 now)
- Goal of 759,000 in Maniema (at 874,000 now)
- Goal of 4.2 mil in Katanga (at 3.2 mil now with registration open until June 9)
- I didn't catch the figures for the Kasai provinces.

Well said Jason, up to date stats are needed to ge...

2011-05-15T08:26:46.151-07:00

Well said Jason, up to date stats are needed to generate better estimates of registration rates between the two elections. However, I will not be surprised if this time round the rate is lower compared to 2006. 2006 was unique due to the fact that it was the first free elections after around 40 years and the electorate ID card played as an incentive (a euphemism of 'citizenship/Congolese nationality/native born Congolese etc...’ in a country so desperate to consolidate its sense of national identity). In 2006 many people registered (25 and a half Million registered voters in total) but not all did show up at the polling station as some got the electoral ID first then followed instructions to boycott the elections as asked but some parties.
Affaire a suivre...

Not clear. Seems that there have been more problem...

2011-05-13T13:15:20.554-07:00

Not clear. Seems that there have been more problems this time around, but we need to get statistics about how many have registered compared with last time around. That will give us a better idea.

How does this compare to the state of voter regist...

2011-05-13T12:31:53.377-07:00

How does this compare to the state of voter registration six months before the 2006 election?