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; 62