Agency verifies voters' ID details as anomalies soar

Electoral commission working with National Registration Bureau (NRB) to verify voters’ ID details. (Photo: Courtesy)

The electoral commission is working with the National Registration Bureau (NRB) to verify voters’ ID details, a week after it admitted 128,926 voters were registered more than once.

According to the latest data, NRB has confirmed that 57,603 ID numbers used in the registration are non-existent in their system while 21,149 are cases of a single ID used to register more than once. And 52,987 ID numbers exist in the NRB records as legitimate documents.