Opinion: The Electoral Commission are “gerrymandering” by other means by adding more polling stations

The ones that believe the General Elections of 2026 is done in a sincere fashion or by the idea of the will of the people. Well, the Electoral Commission and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) won’t allow that to happen. They are using all means and tricks of the trade to ensure the NRM majority and win by default. These people won’t allow the people or the systems to be prepared. That’s why there is additional budget just in December 2025 to prepare for the polls in January 2026.

This whole process is jaded when the Electoral Commission drops the clue of additional 15,256 polling stations in December 2025. That shows their intent, because they can rig the numbers and jade the voter rolls in all of these polling stations. It goes from 38,315 to 53,571 polling stations in 2026. Just like they are adding sub-counties, counties and districts or other ways of making more Members of Parliament ahead of the polls. Therefore, this is all ensuring that the NRM wins and has an easy route to victory.

They are doing this so shortly and announcing it so late, just so the opposition and the other parties cannot have the time or acknowledge what the state just did. They are splitting polling stations and making new ones, so the historical patterns and the voter turnout is changed. That gives the state reasons to manufacture numbers and the declarations forms from the polling stations too.

This here is a tactic and strategy to ensure one thing and one thing only. It isn’t to make it easier for the voter or the citizens for that matter. No, this is done so the Electoral Commission has more flexibility and the ability to juke the stats. That’s why these matters and there should be aggression against this. As this is done in the final stretch of elections road map and done at the last minute.

Everyone should be aware and acknowledge this here game. This is how they play and there is no justice in this, but to secure it all before the polls. That’s why they are doing this, and they aren’t even clever in concealing it either. This is just what they do, and we can all see it. Peace.