23. That the staid up-date exercise involved three components: - Registration of Fresh Applicants, - Registration of transferred voters and clearing of existing Register by deleting dead people’s names, non - qualified voters and non — Citizens.
24. That Returns of the said up-date exercise were received from all Districts and entered into computers at the 2” Respondent’s Headquarters.
25. That in February, 2001, the National Voters’ Register was printed and displayed at Polling Stations in the form of Voters Rolls, in four components i.e. previously registered voters, the newly registered voters, the transferred voters and voters recommended for deletion for ease of scrutinizing the register.”
Mr. Kabatsi submitted that the exercise of compiling and up-dating the Voters’ Register is continuous. Mr. Kasujja’s affidavit evidence to that effect is corroborated by the affidavits of Abdullah Musobya Kigonda dated 02-04-200 1 and the affidavit of Balaba Dunstan, dated 02-04-2001, and Banabas Mutwe, un-dated, filed in support of the 2nd Respondent’s answer to the Petition. Kiganda Abdallah Musobya was the Returning Officer of Kisoro District. Part of his affidavit reads:
“5. That prior to the elections, village meetings were conducted throughout the District to afford the residents an opportunity to verify the Citizenships of all persons who registered to vote.
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