The National Elections Commission (NEC) Chairperson, Davidetta Brown-Lansanah has underscored the need to have a “stronger law” against trucking people during the elections period.
In her quest to the Legislature to enact law against voters trucking, Brown-Lansanah made those comments recently in Ganta, Nimba County during the launch of a public education before phase II of the Biometric Voters Registration (BVR) got underway last Friday, in the remaining nine counties.
She noted that “a stronger law against the trucking people to register and vote in places they do not reside would discourage the act” which according to her, is a “serious challenge” confronting the Commission.
According to the report, Lansanah said the absence of a law against such practice negatively affects the commission instead of helping the entity, she stated that, the current law on trucking, in her mind, even affects the Commission.
She described the current law against trucking as “weak” and stressed the need to have it strengthened by the Legislature in a way that it will be able to identify citizens who leave their places of residence to get registered in places they do not reside.
Though Lansanah did not state how she wants the new law to be modified to be stronger, she noted that such a law would drastically discourage the act of trucking and make the work of the Commission easier.
‘Trucking’ according to Section 7, Chapter 10 of the New Elections Law of Liberia is an offence
