2 Jun 2003

More than 10-thousand people in the Marshall Islands have registered as new voters or re-registered

10:09 am on 2 June 2003

More than 10-thousand people in the Marshall Islands have registered as new voters or re-registered to vote from a different island than in the 1999 election.

The Chief Electoral Officer, Hemly Benjamin has confirmed there was a very large scale re-registration prior to the voter registration deadline.

The National election will be held on November the 17th with a nearly 32-thousand people registered to vote.