Vote for New Merged Local & Gen. Election Systems!
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Vote for A NEW JAMAICA – The New Merged Local & Gen. Election Systems!
The Jamaicans will be voting at the General Elections soon. Here are questions and our answers to them. We feel these are the questions that should be on the voting public minds’ as the time draws nearer.
Q- Why are we holding General and Local Government elections on separate dates when it costs so much (budget of just under 1 Billion JA$) to host these elections?
A- There are many examples from other countries of the world with much are complexed systems and problems of logistics them Jamaica with its mere 1.3 million voters. (India has more than 300 million voters at elections).
The savings to be enjoy by bringing the two elections together on the same day and using that single ballots for all the candidates could pay for the additional logistics required.
Small island countries like our in the Caribbean have to really confront the hurdles and remove them fast. Get development working now! Simple items like merging elections dates and terms by making them all 4 years instead of 3 for local (many time going for much longer) and 5 for General (many times going much shorter). Even having them held on fixed dates should be applicable by now this just not at all difficult to do.
Jamaicans have to demand these things even those of you living outside of the country – you should be voting too!
For more please visit www.ndm4jamaica.org
