The Women’s Situation Room (WSR) has called on the National Elections Commission (NEC) to enhance Civic Voter Education ahead of the runoff in order to prevent the astounding number of invalid votes that were reported in the polls on October 10. According to WSR, the inadequacy of civic and voter education before the October 10 polls contributed to the 114,639 invalid votes which represented 5.88% of the total votes. “NEC informed Liberians that first-time voters constituted a little over 20 percent of registered voters — a figure which pointed to the priority of Civic and Voter Education. But the chairperson of NEC, Davidetta Brown-Lansanah, refluted the accussation, saying that there are several reasons for invalid votes. “Secondly, it is important to note that Civic and Voter Education (CVE) is not just with the Election Commission for a brief period of about three months.
