Perhaps we need to ask ourselves - why we conduct voter registration to begin with. there various reasons (because as it is possible to have elections without registers as was the case in SA in 1994). but one of the reason that we have a register is for planning purposes (how many ballots, pens, stamps, marker pens per polling station).
however in our case its for both verifying voters on election day (based on our history) and for logistical planning.
The fact is this whole process was rushed - registration ended dec 18th. remember that there were BVR machines that crashed of course these BVRs were from regional machines. we need to understand that if a machine crashed and the data therein was lost and could not be recovered (as it may have happened). these voters could not be disenfranchised for 'technical' reasons. one of these guys is actually a governor right now but i digress. What should have happened to these people? should they have been rejected because - their data was lost for reasons that are not of their doing.

this process is boring, was expecting fireworks not hours of arguments about a special register with 30k voters

This happened to me. During the period of registration verification i found that my details had not been captured. I had to fill in a form to correct the anomally. On the actual voting day my details had been included and i was able to vote

I was impressed when I found a good old type writer in the office of one prominent learned counsel deemed to be one of the brightest legal mind in the country.
this learned fellows are something I tell you.

Anyone knows how I can get the IEBC ink off? My nails grow kinda slowly.....