Burkina Faso: the audit mission of the electoral register delivers a satisfaction

(presidential and legislative elections of November 2015 in Ouagadougou, illustration) The audit mission of the electoral register issued a satisfactory report for the next November elections in Burkina Faso.

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In Burkina Faso, after a week of work, the ad hoc committee made up of 22 experts and personalities completed the audit of the electoral register.

Experts concluded that the biometric electoral register is reliable and ready for the elections of November 22, 2020. The opposition had requested an independent audit of the file following concerns about cases of possible multiple registrations. 

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with our correspondent in Ouagadougou,

Yaya Boudani

The audit operation consisted of evaluating the conformity of the electoral register with the electoral code and the Constitution of Burkina Faso, and also with the required international standards.

The biometric file counts, to be precise, 6,490,926 voters.

According to the group of international experts who carried out the mission, the Electoral Commission demonstrated professionalism and transparency during the process of reviewing and auditing the biometric electoral register.

Cyril Kulnevic is the head of the expert delegation.

The CENI guaranteed the uniqueness of each voter, by performing a significant deduplication of multiple enrollments, with 425,725 million records identified and deleted from the entire database from 2012 to 2020. These operations have thus made it possible to guarantee the inclusive nature of the Burkinabè electoral register, which today reaches 6 million 490 926 voters…

Despite some weaknesses, such as the uncontrolled accumulation of deceased voters, estimated at around 320,000 people, the experts concluded that the electoral roll is ready for the organization of the next elections.

Antoine Michon, Director of Political Affairs and Democratic Governance of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), is satisfied with the work accomplished.

It is a quality file, which was produced under very difficult conditions, which is reliable and which therefore allows elections to be carried out with confidence

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According to Minaté Samaté, the Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union, this audit is an important contribution to the holding of peaceful elections next November.

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