Zambia’s Electoral Commission Registers the Country’s Inmates to Vote

Officials with Zambia’s Electoral Commission have been holding voter registration drives in an effort to register over 16,000 inmates across the country’s prisons ahead of the presidential elections scheduled for August 2021.

Sylvia Bwalya, the spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission of Zambia, outlined the outcome of the initiative, “The commission is very happy for both the turnout for the voter registration exercise, generally, the turnout that we have had, and also the response from persons in lawful custody. As we have at the end of the initial period of voter registration, for persons in lawful custody, the commission managed to capture over 11,000.”

The electoral commission spokeswoman also added that around 11,000 people in lawful custody had been processed for voting at the end of the initial registration period.