Lesotho Elections: Voting

“The turnout has been good so far, very good,” Khotatso Ralitsie, Director of Elections at the Independent Electoral Commission, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) around lunchtime after having visited several polling stations in rural areas.

Full story here. BBC story here. News24 story here.

Some possible logistics problems? SABC story here.

Rethabile Pholo, the public [...]

Election Logistics

South Africa is on alert and willing to provide Lesotho with support. Here.

“This is… within the spirit of the general co-operation in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to enhance democracy in our region,” said Lekota after talks with Lesotho’s deputy prime minister Lesao Lehohla in Maseru on Thursday.

In an article that is [...]

Lesotho General Elections Voter List

You can browse the IEC (Independent Electoral Commission) voter roll for the upcoming election, here. Given the SADC voting requirements that have been imposed I must admit that this is fairly impressive. The site even goes so far as to make each registered voter selectable: Seme’s wife, MaKay. It seems that you can search by [...]