Elections of municipal division and subcounty chairpersons along with their councilors have been marred by low turn up at most polling stations in Masindi.
By 7:00am, Miracle centre polling station had already been set up, but with no voters available. At Masindi Public Primary School, less than 50 voters had cast their vote by 11:00am.
Esther Abiria, a polling assistant at Masindi Junior polling station said, ” we do not know why people are not turning up. This exercise has been so dull compared to all the previous elections.” Masindi Stadium, which has two polling centres, had the poorest turn up by 11 am where less than 40 people had turned up.
Catherine Kusemererwa, a voter at St. Kizito Vocational polling station said, “it seems some people were disappointed by the previous elections. But we hope they will turn up because as citizens, we need to exercise our constitutional rights.”
Last week, the district registrar Ibrahim Salim Kizindo appealed to the public to embrace elections having cited a poor turn up during the LC5 elections.
