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IEBC must rethink BVR kit distribution formula

When you label an exercise “Mass Voter Registration” one naturally expects you to go for the masses, unless you are the IEBC. Nay, theirs is a “Geographical Distribution of Equipment” drive where the masses are ignored and land mass favoured. It’s called turning logic on its head.

Given the artificial scarcity of resources at the IEBC, it would only be practical to concentrate the greatest number of kits in areas with the greatest unregistered but eligible population. Even the national government does not build infrastructure based on universal access but rather economic sense.

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