The Fijian Elections Office today piloted its ‘SMS Notification Feature’ that has now been incorporated into the Voter Registration system.
2,502 voters who had either registered or updated their details between January 2017 and 20th March 2017 and had provided the elections office with their mobile numbers would have received a ‘confirmation’ SMS advising them of the registration.
Supervisor of Elections Mohammad Saneem says they are currently testing the system so that they can directly communicate with the registered individual.
Saneem says Election Management Bodies around the world continuously try to find avenues to directly engage with voters and since mobile phones are very popular in Fiji they have taken advantage of this medium adding later on they will try other means of communication such as email.
The ‘SMS Notification Feature’ will allow the FEO to confirm to voters in terms of their registration as a Voter.
The system will also send an SMS to a voter when the voter updates their details.
Finally the system will also send an SMS to a voter to advise the voter that their Voter Card has been replaced.
The SMS Notification feature operates on both the networks in Fiji and is a free of charge service.
