Much Acclaimed Efficiency in Logistics

There is no doubt that NEBE, with a better organizational setup and efficient working system, is working day and night so as to make the upcoming general elections free, fair, democratic, peaceful and credible more than ever.

Prior to the elections, the board had to prepare massive electoral documents and dispatch them to 547 electoral constituencies and over 43,500 polling stations it has established across the country. The preparations and distributions of materials were carried out in two phases.

The first phase was made for the registration of voters and candidates. The second phase is related to meeting material needs for balloting, vote counting and displaying electoral results.

In the first phase, thus, the board has prepared and published some 50 types of documents and distributed them in large copies to 547 electoral constituencies and over 43,500 polling stations, as a result of which the registration of voters and candidates successfully completed some months ago. Among the 50 types of documents efficiently prepared in a short period of time is the voters’ registration book whose 97,000 copies were dispatched along with 35,000,000 voters’ registration cards, various types of forms for candidacy registration as well as various reference materials such as proclamations, codes and guidelines.

In the second phase, the board has similarly prepared more than 45 types of documents that will be used for balloting, vote counting and displaying electoral results, whose distribution was almost under completion just a month before the actual voting day.

The institutional capacity of NEBE particularly in preparing massive electoral documents in a cost effective way and distributing them in the most efficient way has long been hailed by international bodies such as the Carter Center.

The board with better efficiency this time around is certainly distributing the remaining materials necessary for balloting and counting votes as much as it effectively distributed materials for voters and candidates registrations.