Responsibilities and
powers
170. The
Elections Commission’s
powers include the following:
responsibilities
and
(a) to conduct, manage, supervise, and facilitate all
elections and public referendums, to ensure the
proper exercise of the right to vote, and to
ensure that all elections and public referendums
are conducted freely and fairly, without
intimidation, aggression, undue influence or
corruption;
(b) to prepare, maintain, and update electoral rolls,
and to make all arrangements for holding
elections and public referendums;
(c) to hold and declare the results of those elections
and public referendums within periods
prescribed by law;
(d) to compile the register of voters in each
constituency, to revise it at such periods as shall
be determined by law and to provide for
publication of the register in the Government
Gazette;
(e) to fix, vary, demarcate and continuously review
the boundaries and names of constituencies or
voting units in all elections in accordance with
principles specified by law and to provide for
publication of any amendments in the
Government Gazette;
(f) to register political parties, and to perform those
actions relating to political parties as specified
by law;
(g) to educate and create awareness among the
general public on the electoral process and its
purpose;
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