EC Introduces Short Code For Voter Verification

he Electoral Commission (EC) has introduced a short message service (SMS) platform to enable registered voters to access their registration details.

The shortcode, 1422, will be activated on Friday, September 18, to Friday, September 25, 2020.

To access registration details, voters would have to text their voter ID card number to the shortcode.

The exhibition of the voter’s register would commence on Friday, September 18, to Friday, September 25.

The eight-day exercise would give registered voters the opportunity to authenticate their personal information.

The exercise would also help the EC rid the register of unqualified persons ahead of the December 7 polls.

The EC provisionally registered 16,963,306 people at the end of the biometric voter’s registration exercise which ended on August 9, this year.