The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed over 400 registration machines to the 18 local government areas of Ondo State for the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) in the state.
Besides, the commission has provided additional 23 registration machines for some wards with difficult terrains and over-populated areas in the state.
The state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Akin Orebiyi, made the disclosure while addressing stakeholders ahead of the CVR exercise in Akure, the state capital.
Orebiyi said the machines with fully-charged batteries and generators alongside back-ups cut across the 203 wards to avoid the hitches witnessed in the last registration exercise.
According to him, registration would take place in polling units, where the records of the 2011 registration were lost.
The exercise, according to the REC would however, not take place in some units in Owo, Ese-Odo, Akure South, Odigbo and Ondo East local government areas of the state.
This, Orebiyi said, was due to INEC’s inability to issue permanent voter cards (PVCs) to the electorate in the area during the just-concluded distribution exercise.
Orebiyi said INEC was yet to print the PVC of the electorate in the areas, urging eligible voters in the areas not to come out for the exercise starting from today as the date for the distribution of the PVC would be announced on a later date.
He appealed to people in the affected areas not to panic as such delay would not stop them from performing their civic responsibility.
The INEC commissioner however, warned the people to desist from double registration, saying such practice could affect those involved in it.

INEC deploys 400 voters registration machines to Ondo