Liberia: In Bomi County, Residents Reject 'Strangers' Trying to Register to Vote - and Decide Their Future

Tubmanburg — Strange out-of-towners have been arriving in droves in Tubmanburg, Bomi County since the Voters Roll Update process commenced this week - and residents for the most part are unhappy.

In the wake of the increase in voter trucking, residents of the county, mostly women gathered before the National Elections Commission (NEC) head offices Wednesday, to protest against voter trucking, declaring that the original citizens of the county are being denied an opportunity to register because of the influx of people trucked from Montserrado County on a daily basis.

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