Change of ad­dress.

That’s what many peo­ple went to the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion’s (EBC) Port-of-Spain of­fice to do in the last nine days of the vot­er reg­is­tra­tion pe­ri­od, EBC of­fi­cials con­firmed yes­ter­day.

A reg­is­tra­tion pe­ri­od for vot­ers be­gan on Ju­ly 7.

Reg­is­tra­tion at the PoS of­fice and oth­er EBC of­fices around T&T end­ed at 6 pm yes­ter­day.

The PoS of­fice had a very busy time over the last nine days of the reg­is­tra­tion process but not as much for yes­ter­day’s fi­nal day, of­fi­cers said.

EBC of­fi­cers added that lines at the PoS of­fice had been long dur­ing the nine-day pe­ri­od, in­clud­ing up to Tues­day when the line was out­side the build­ing on Fred­er­ick Street, PoS.

But it was not as long yes­ter­day, they said.

The fi­nal re­vised vot­ers’ list for the Au­gust 10 poll—in­volv­ing all up­dates—will be is­sued next week.

The elec­torate in 2015—pri­or to the fi­nal vot­ers’ list—was 1,099,245.

The fi­nal vot­ers’ list for that year’s gen­er­al elec­tion was 1,099,279.

Of that elec­torate, 734,421 vot­ed and the 2015 vot­er turn-out was 66.8 per cent. The PNM won that elec­tion.

On queries about Venezue­lans vot­ing in the elec­tion, Guardian Me­dia was told that there are many Venezue­lans who have lived in T&T for many years who may vote once they hold the cor­rect sta­tus and doc­u­men­ta­tion. But they said that the Venezue­lans who ap­plied for the amnesty of­fered by Gov­ern­ment last May-June don’t qual­i­fy to vote. —Gail Alexan­der