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Papua New Guineans go to the polls from today

PORT MORESBY: Papua New Guineans start going to the polls for General Election 2022 (GE22) from today to July 22.

A total of 9,905 polling stations, comprising 11,066 polling booths, have been set up in the four regions – Highlands, Mamose, New Guinea Islands and Southern – covering 375 Local Level Governments and 7,023 wards.

The first to cast ballots today are voters in the 15 provinces of Hela, West Sepik, East Sepik, Madang, Morobe, East New Britain, Manus, New Ireland, West New Britain, Bougainville, Western, Central, Gulf, Milne bay and Northern. (See chart for polling dates of other provinces.)

The news break was published by The National:


Going to the polls

July 4, 2022The NationalMain Stories

Simon Sinai

By HELEN TARAWA
PAPUA New Guineans start going to the polls for General Election 2022 (GE22) from today to July 22.
A total of 9,905 polling stations, comprising 11,066 polling booths, have been set up in the four regions – Highlands, Mamose, New Guinea Islands and Southern – covering 375 local level governments and 7,023 wards.
The first to cast ballots today are voters in the 15 provinces of Hela, West Sepik, East Sepik, Madang, Morobe, East New Britain, Manus, New Ireland, West New Britain, Bougainville, Western, Central, Gulf, Milne Bay and Northern. (See chart for polling dates of other provinces).
Papua New Guinea Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai said: “We aim to complete polling as soon as possible for counting to start and for election writs to be returned by July 29.
Sinai said July 29 was the deadline for all writs to be returned and “it cannot be delayed”.
“Polling schedules have been printed and the electoral rolls have all been sent as sensitive materials together with the ballot papers and indelible inks to the (22) provinces.
“All the provinces should, by now, have completed quality checks of all the ballot boxes, labelled according to the numbering of the provinces and team kits,” he said.
“Today (last Friday) is the final day of campaigning and election preparations and the election motion is in progress.
“We have completed the preparations for GE22.
“The electoral roll, ballot papers, polling team kits have all been shifted to the provinces. All training for the polling officials and returning officers have been conducted and appointments of all returning officers have also been completed.
“We have completed the requirements at the headquarters and now we have shifted the work to the provincial administrations, election managers, returning officers and assistant returning officers in the local level governments (LLGs).
“We have come up with the final polling schedules although there are number of things that caused the delay.
“Basic information is collected in the province starting from ward levels to LLGs, district and headquarters in Port Moresby.”

NCD polling on Wed, July 6: Sinai

July 4, 2022The NationalMain Stories

PNG Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai says National Capital District (NCD) voters will only get to cast their ballots for General Election 2022 (GE22) on Wednesday.
“This is a delay from Monday (today) because the training and counting venues are not ready,” he added.
Sinai said, on Friday, that the owners of the venues had demanded upfront payment which were costly.
“We do not want to pretend to say we are ready when we are not,” he said.
“We were not able secure a training centre and a counting venue.
“At the same time, owners want upfront payment.
“So, it is a lot of money and that is beyond our control.”
Sinai said the polling venues were allocated in alphabetical order.
“The polling officials have been trained and are ready to start on Wednesday,” he added.
Sinai said Manus had requested to start polling on July 4 and have been given approval as long as the polling was conducted and completed within the period allowed.
“We have sent them administrative funding and we are also working on the temporary election workers fund, returning officers and their assistants and election managers’ vehicle hires.”
“I would also like to remind service providers and everyone that let us not try to mislead. Service providers must not allow any vehicle hires and accommodation over the period not expected,” he added.
“We have put some control into this as part of our preparations for GE22. In NCD, we are still making payments and we are looking at improving our management,” he added.

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