The funds will only be used to help facilitate creating new registration and polling stations at the Liberian Embassy in the US. If the NEC does not have the funds and the citizens requiring the services are able to raise the funds, to assist the NEC, I think they should be allowed.

These are strange times, Liberians have to come up with new and creative ways to get the things they need done to help move the country and the people forward. For years we claim, everyone is waiting for the government to do everything, we are stepping forward and saying that we are ready and willing to help the government accomplish this important task.

We are the people, and we should not let those with limited vision use the constitution to block the people progress.

We are members of the global village, it is a result of our, inefficient, ineffective, dictorial governments, and their wars that disburse us around the world, now let them accommodate us. The future calls for us to dictate to our government what we want and not the other way around.

We have that right. The NEC can make it possible, if that is what the people want. The rest is just a matter of logistics, especially if the people are willing to pay for the service by raising funds to cover the cost, and the International Community is willing to help us "PLAY FAIR" by monitoring and reporting on the process.

No Execuses......

>Even if the fee is a registration fee and not a voting fee?

Yes Ciata! Any attempt to solicite funds for elections from the electorates by the election authority, to participate in a national or local elections is tantamount to fees paid for voting, which according to what I understand from our laws, is illigal.

I can understand the desire for citizens wanting to help their nation for a course, but without the explicite revocation of the legal impediment, any Liberian citizen may choose to challenge the results of any election that solicited payment for part of the process by the electorates. Mind you, "REGISTRATION" is psrt of the electoral process. You can vote without registration.

The Liberian Constitution guarantees for all Liberians, free and fair elections in the Republic of Liberia; and qualified Liberians, no matter their geographical location, have the right to participate.
There are many ways to seek help for elections only if the country in question deems it necessary. And should the GOL want our paricipation in the coming elections, all it has to do is to request for that assistant.

It appears disingenuous to me if the GOL should use the usual "lack of funds" as the excuse. Paying to participate in any election, is to me a NON STARTER!

This should read: You cannot vote without registration.

Thank you Cllr. I have on many ocassions written about this, but some Liberians are bent on having their way be the LAW.

Leon
YES ILLEGAL...but the current situations are not FULLY governed by the constitution....we have a SELECTED or APPOINTED gov't. Moreso, given that FUND is the CRY....I strongly believe we who are willing to go home won't mind spending some kind of fees to be PART OF.

Noko4