ELECAM Gets Electoral Kits Ready

Preparations are intensifying at the Elections Cameroon, ELECAM head office in Yaounde with officials and staff dotting the I's and cutting the t's with regards to the putting in place of voting material. Officials told Cameroon Tribune on August 13, 2013 that polling materials ordered from abroad were already coming in and they were in the process of preparing kits for polling stations. The extra material include over 20, 000 ballots, same amount of polling booths, indelible ink and other electoral gadgets.

Before the polls, Dr Thaddeus Menang, Head of the Division in charge of Electoral Operation and Referendum said, "We must have prepared and sent a kit to each of the more than 21, 000 polling stations that will operate on that day." He explained that each kit contains the basic material needed to organise voting including ballot boxes and polling booths. The kits will be labeled and Thaddeus Menang pointed out that they are likely to be accompanied to the field by electoral rolls. "The kits are in the process of being prepared which is quite different from the printing of ballot papers which we are about to launched," he hinted.

ELECAM is also currently mounting ballots and once verified and confirmed in collaboration with political parties running for September 30 legislative and municipal elections, printing will commence. "We will soon be inviting political parties to confirm the papers and colours they have chosen. They already provided the symbols and the logos and where to use them. When they will choose the papers, we will go ahead with the final printing," he stressed.