Acting Principal Electoral Officer Joe Johnson Iati said members of the VMF have been at the Electoral Office for the past two weeks assisting hundreds of people to get proxies and duplicate cards for the polls.
Around 200,000 registered voters will cast their ballots for the 362 candidates contesting the Pacific Island nation’s snap election, scheduled for this Friday, 22 January. Polling booths will open from 7.30 in the morning.
A total of Vt70 million has gone into printing the ballot papers which were completed Thursday last week by Sun Production printers.
