Fact Check: Have More Women Registered to Vote in the Pending 2023 Elections than Men?

Claim

Vast majority of the electorate (Voters for the 2023 elections) are women

Summary

The Vice Standard Bearer of the Collaborating Political Parties madam Charlyne Brumskin in a live radio interview on Truth FM in Monrovia on Tuesday June 6, 2023 claimed that vast majority of the Liberian electorates are women.

Madam Brumskin said: “we [I] represent the women vote, a vast majority of the electorates are women”.

Local Voices Liberia Fact Checking Desk authenticate this claim by reviewing the data from the National Elections Commission and found it to be mostly correct.

Evidence

Local Voices Liberia Fact Checking Desk in verifying the claim made by the CPP Vice Standard found the National Elections Commission 2023 Biometric Voter Registration Report released to stakeholders on June 5, 2023 which shows registration data from the just ended Biometric Voter’s Registration (BVR) process.

A review of the NEC 2023 BVR Report shows that before the deduplication and adjudication processes, the total number of registered voters synchronized from across the country shows that a little over 2.4 million people registered (2, 498, 904). Of this amount, 49.67% are females while 50.32% are males.

However, the NEC Report shows that there was duplication of registrants which amounts to 27,192 while 529 registrants were flagged as suspected underage across the 15 counties.

The NEC also states that after the adjudication processes, the total registered voters will stand at 2,471,183.  Of which females constitute 50.06% while males accounts for 49.94%.

NEC 2023 BVR Report after data Synchronization, deduplication and adjudication shows that women constitute 50.06% which is a majority but not a greater majority to be consider a “vast majority” of the registered voters.

Conclusion

Based on these facts, which are reported by NEC in its Report of the 2023 BVR process to stakeholders, women constitute 50.06% which is the majority of those registered during the 2023 BVR process but not a “vast majority’. Considering the difference to the 49.94% of registered males. Therefore, the claim made the CPP Vice Standard Bearer Charlyn Brumskine is mostly correct.