• DWW is delighted that ECZ has finally started the continuous voter registration with effect from 1st of June.
• It will enable persons with disabilities register at their own time without panicking.
• ECZ must also start continuous voter education.

Disability Rights Watch (DWW) says commencement of the continuous voter registration exercise will enable persons with disabilities to register at their own time without panicking because of deadlines.
Organization Executive Director Wamundila Waliuya told Money FM News that the exercise will also provide an opportunity to persons with disabilities who had no national registration cards to have ample time to acquire the document.
Mr. Waliuya however said the organization is worried that the voter registration centers still remain a single center for each of the 10 districts, hence the distance to be covered by persons with disabilities still remains very wide.
He urged Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to ensure that all polling stations are turned into continuous voter registration centers.
“Disability Rights Watch is delighted that the Electoral Commission of Zambia has finally started the continuous voter registration with effect from1st of June.”
“However, the centers are very far from where the majority persons with disabilities live especially that persons with disabilities are normally found in rural areas and peri-urban areas. We want to urge the Electoral Commission of Zambia progressively to ensure that all polling stations are turned into continuous voter registration centers,” Mr. Waliuya said.
Mr. Waliuya also advised the Commission to also start conducting continuous voter education, especially for persons with disabilities and ensure that disability inclusion is progressively done.
“While we are doing voter registration which is continuous, we should also now begin to do continuous voter education, especially voter education for persons with disabilities and this should go together with ensuring that disability inclusion is progressively done.”
“So that, by the time we come to a general election like in 2026, the Electoral Commission of Zambia does not panic to do everything like voter education, ensuring polling stations are inclusive and ensuring their messaging and all the awareness materials are inclusive,” he stated.
He further encouraged persons living with disabilities who are eligible to ensure that they go to the nearest station and acquire the national registration cards and take time to register as voters.
“Voter registration is the right for persons with disabilities as it is a right for all citizens and it is important that persons with disabilities exercise this right because we do not want them to complain that they are always disfranchised when this opportunity now is going to be done continuously,” he emphasized.
Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has today 1st June, 2022 commenced the Continuous Registration of Voters for a period of four months.
According to Commission Chairperson Justice Esau Chulu, the exercise will be implemented in 10 districts which are Choma, Mongu, Solwezi, Kasama, Kabwe, Lusaka, Ndola, Mansa, Chipata and Chinsali.
For Mongu, the exercise will start on July 1, 2022 due to the upcoming by-election set for 30th June, 2022.
Article 46 of the Constitution of Zambia Amendment Act No.2 of 2016 provides for eligible citizens to register as voters.