By Tamala Kamanga

Dowa, January 29, Mana: Dowa has registered a low turnout on voter registration in the supplementary voter registration exercise which Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) conductede from January 27 to 28 in the district.

Speaking Tuesday after supervision of four registration centres, MEC Commissioner Dr Emmanuel Fabiano said this can be attributed to the fact many people had already registered during the major registration exercise which took place last year.

"As you know that this is supplementary voter registration, so the number we were expecting was very small. For example, in some centers we expected to register 80 people during this exercise.

"In one of the centres, the highest registration we have seen is 21; the centre was at a primary school and the majority that registered were learners for that school," said Dr Fabiano.

The supervision noted that some centres had recorded zero registrations while some registered only one.