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September 13 2025
‘A clean voters’ list is a moral safeguard’
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December 9 2025
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Orette Fisher, former director of elections... ‘Notwithstanding cost, conduct enumeration exercise every 15 years.’
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Professor Christopher Charles, UWI professor of political and social psychology ... ‘Accuracy is critical to democracy. Do it every five years.’
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Glasspole Brown, director of elections... ‘Full purge is under active consideration at ECJ’.
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Danielle Archer, principal director of NIA... ‘A clean voters list is a moral safeguard. Clean it every two cycles.’
Failure by successive administrations to declare an enumeration period in Jamaica, for a complete reverification and purging of the voters’ list has fuelled concerns about the low percentage of the population perceived as having decided who should form the government in recent elections. Such a declaration would allow the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) to conduct a door-to-door exercise to verify every name, and remove who cannot be found from the list which has come under severe scrutiny since the September 3, 2025 general election.
