By Amos Ssemuwemba As Uganda nears the 2026 general elections, the viability of implementing a biometric voting system is under scrutiny, despite President Yoweri Museveni’s push for its adoption as a safeguard against vote-stealing. In 2021, the Electoral Commission invested Shs82.89 billion in 32,334 biometric machines to cover 34,344 polling stations. However, the rollout encountered…
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Over 1.9million posts await to be applied for during the 2025/2026 General elections. On Tuesday July 30, 2024 Justice Simon Byabakama, chairperson Electoral Commission (EC) announced the EC roadmap for 2026 polls during EC’s national workshop for stake holder at Hotel Africana in Kampala. The road map indicates that the reorganization of the polling stations…
As Political faction prepares for the upcoming general elections in 2025-2026, the Electoral Commission is set to initiate the demarcation of electoral areas and the reorganization of polling stations starting in August 2024. The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, emphasized the commission’s demarcation focus during a stakeholders meeting in Kampala. This…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has tasked all media persons who have been cleared to physically attend and cover the nomination exercise to present a 72-hr PCR negative test for COVID19, which will be taken at their own cost. This has been revealed by the EC spokesperson Paul Bukenya in a statement issued this morning in…
The Electoral Commission (EC) will today commence the 2-day exercise of nomination of candidates for Parliamentary Elections 2021. The exercise which was earlier scheduled for 12th and 13th October 2020 was postponed to 15th and 16th October 2020 following presentations from various stakeholders including the Parliament of Uganda. According to the EC boss Justice Simon…
The Electoral Commission will conclude the nomination of candidates for Local Government Councils Elections today, Monday 5th October 2020. The nomination exercise commenced on 21st September 2020, in all the 146 districts/cities and was scheduled to end on 1st October 2020, but was extended for four more days due to the high number of aspiring…
