Daynia Harper, Manager, Public Relations and Communications at the EOJ
With a general election to be held later this year, the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is urging electors to collect their renewed voter identification cards.
The call comes as the EOJ intensifies its efforts to ensure smoother voting experiences and improved efficiency at polling stations on Election Day.
Manager, Public Relations and Communications at the EOJ, Daynia Harper, told JIS that approximately 120,000 voter ID cards are at EOJ offices waiting to be collected.
She said a renewal exercise was conducted in 2019, and several people renewed their voter ID cards but did not collect them.
Many of the uncollected cards belong to the people who registered to vote as far back as 2016, receiving the ID card that would have expired in 2019 but was later extended until 2021.
Those cards were automatically renewed by the EOJ and are waiting to be collected.
Ms. Harper also advised persons whose ID cards were not automatically renewed to move forward with the renewal process, noting that the voter ID card is a crucial document that confirms a person's eligibility to vote.
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