Police in Lilongwe have arrested Wiseman Enock for allegedly registering more than once in the ongoing voter registration exercise ahead of next year’s general elections.

Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) director responsible for media and public relations Sangwani Mwafulirwa in a statement has said Enock was arrested today at Msambeta School immediately after he allegedly registered for the second time.

He said: “It is important to note that Msambeta School, like some other registration centers, has three teams for voter registration. In Mr. Enock’s case, he managed to register twice because the second registration was done on a different gadget from the first one.

“The registration machine is designed to detect and prevent multiple registrations on the same gadget, whether it is online or offline. If Mr. Enock had attempted to register a second time using the same machine, the system would have flagged him immediately, and the registration would have been rejected”.

According to Mwafulirwa, the voter registration system is robust and is capable of detecting duplicates; hence, it is not porous, making the final voter register free of multiple entries.