Liberia’s Vice President, Jewel Howard- Taylor has warned Liberians against voters trucking by those she described as “failed politicians” in their respective districts across Liberia ahead of the upcoming Bio-metric Voter’s Registration (BVR) process.
However, the issue of voters trucking has become common within the country body politics since post-war Liberia, something which many believe has the propensity to undermine the country’s fragile democracy if not curtailed NOW.
Additionally, it also runs contrary to the New Elections Law Chapter 10.2, which states, “the following acts shall constitute malfeasance, punishable, and Influencing or attempting to influence the result of any election to include the trucking of voters.”
But according to VP Howard-Taylor, voters’ trucking upsets people who want a proper representation of their constituents.
“The issue of voter trucking is a crime under the New Elections Law. Therefore, it should be handled with seriousness,” Howard-Taylor said ahead of the March 20 BVR process.
“The security apparatus must not just watch those buses travel across the country but must act swiftly to curtail the situation during the election, and if you truck people is a crime, but there will be buses, and trucks of people moving from place to place but no one said anything.
“And what it does is that group loses a chance to elect someone to represent them properly where they lived and then they upset the election of the people who want another leader,” the National Patriotic Party (NPP) Standard Bearer added.
She further added, “I think it should be seriously handled. I am happy that we will be able to have new registration, so people can be able to stay where they are, but there will still be people trucking all around the place and you will know security forces will see the truck, and they will see the buses.”
“If you live in Bomi why is there a truck full of people coming to Bomi? Others have to take responsibility for the system so people know that the things that are wronged can be handled,” Madam Howard-Taylor averred.
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