Howdy Folks, below is the job description of the Administrative Area Returning Officers during the last presidential and National Assembly elections. 1. Drawing up, well in advance, a program and detailed arrangement for poll including the setting up of polling stations, polling staff, etc; 2. Procurements of all election materials in sufficient quantity well in advance of polling day; 3 Giving publicity to the commission notice under section 41 of the election degree in the administrative area. 4. Obtaining copies of the head register from PIEC; 5. Issue of nomination papers to the intending candidates for the national assembly elections. 6. Receiving nomination papers, supervise the nomination of candidates and acceptance of security deposits. 7. Placing the nomination papers for public inspection 8. scrutiny of nomination papers and issue of certificate of acceptance or rejection of nomination , as the case may be; 9. Publishing a list of contesting candidates as per section 52 of election degree. 10. Issue of Withdrawal Candidature Form, in case of any withdrawal 11. Receipt of applications and granting of permission for holding campaign meetings within the administrative area; 12. Convening regular meetings of political parties to discuss problems relating to the conduct of the elections, review of law and order situation, enforcement of campaign ethics etc; 13. Deployment of polling station teams for the conduct of the poll and supply of election materials to them; 14. Effective supervision of the poll; 15. Selection of the counting center and conduct the counting of ballot tokens; 16. Allocation of transportation for election for election duty officials and ballot boxes. 17. Reporting of the result of the count to the PIEC; and 18. Safe custody of all election papers and materials after counting. Have a wonderful day LAMIN PF MANNEH ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------