The Nationwide Voter Registration Drive and Know Your Election campaign for the 2022 General Election concluded with 200,899
voter engagements and 19,879 new registrations.

While extending his appreciation to all stakeholders, Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem said the 49-day Drive was the culmination of a year’s worth of planning and preparation that saw fruition as the FEO reached a record number of Fijians through its outreach in the form of voter registration and awareness.

“Our teams travelled to some of the most remote villages, crossing rivers and making journeys on foot to provide voter services to Fijians ensuring that no one person was deprived of the opportunity to register, update their details or upgrade their VoterCard
ahead of the 2022 General Election."

“This time around we also placed our teams strategically in heavily populated settlements in various urban centres where we took our services to the people instead of having them come to our Voter Services Centres in towns."

Saneem said the FEO crossed its target for voter engagement twice during this drive and the success of this initiative rested with the teams that went out to villages, settlements, urban centres and rural and maritime areas to provide voter services as
well as the various stakeholders that facilitated the visits.

By Reginald Chandar