Only one day for seven Highlands provinces, NCD voters to cast ballots

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Only one day for seven Highlands provinces, NCD voters to cast ballots

PORT MORESBY: Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai has confirmed that the seven Highlands provinces and National Capital District will only be allowed one-day polling.

Sinai said dates had yet to be confirmed but with polling pushed forward, from June 18 to July 8.

“The rest of the country will have polling for the full 21 days,” he added.

The news break was published by The National:

 

1-day polling

February 15, 2022The NationalMain Stories

Simon Sinai

By MIRIAM ZARRIGA
ELECTORAL Commissioner Simon Sinai has confirmed that the seven Highlands provinces and National Capital District will only be allowed one-day polling.
Sinai said dates have yet to be confirmed but with polling pushed forward, from June 18 to July 8, any date could be selected.
“The rest of the country will have polling for the full 21 days,” he added.
“First preference counting will be held at the LLGs (local level governments) for the coastal
provinces with the seven Highlands provinces having centralised counting at the provincial headquarters but divided into the LLGs for first preference counting.
“All public servants will be supporting the PNGEC for the two weeks to conduct polling and counting with a recruitment
drive for all returning and assistant returning officers by way of open advertisement using the media.
“Teachers will be recommended to be engaged as presiding officers for all polling teams.
“A total of seven polling officials will be available per team, in total 45,000 polling officials will be used for the 21 days of polling.
“Separate polling queues for men and women, we tried it during the by-election for Moresby North-West and it was successful with a lot of women happy with the separate queues.”

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