Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) chairperson Madam Davidetta Browne-Lansanah has informed the Liberia Senate that there is an outstanding of US$3.2M for the conduct of this year’s elections.
The NEC boss lamented the financial gap while appearing before the Liberian Senate on August 29. This shortfall raises concerns with less than two months to the presidential and legislative elections.
She said the Commission has so far received US$49, 710, 210.00 out of US$53 million needed to conduct the 10 October 2023 elections.
Browne-Lansanah also informed the Senate that information has been published for the recruitment of temporary staff on the Commission’s portal and data will be retrieved from the portal to determine the capacity of applicants to conduct the 2023 elections.
Madam Lansanah further noted that Final Registration Roll will be published and released to political parties in September.
The NEC chairperson indicated that while it is true that biometric was used for the voters’ registration process, voting is going to be conducted on a manual basis. She also stressed that no filming or photographic devices will be allowed in the voting room.
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