An international election’s observer in the world, The Carter Center, has years ago told Sierra Leone how it could prevent chaos in elections conduct.

The organization is credible for observing elections in the sub-region and in other countries in the world.

It always issues out comprehensive reports on elections’ events and exercises conducted in countries whose general elections it had been observed over the past decades.

The Carter Center conducts election observation in accordance with the Declaration of Principles of International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observation adopted at the United Nations in 2005, its report states.

Sierra Leone is among the countries in the sub-region that had been closely monitored by The Carter Center on its election activities. For example, on November 2012 National Elections in Sierra Leone, Carter provided a detail report that spoke to many anomalies that it observed at the time.

It is expected that if Sierra Leone’s electoral management bodies would have fully adopted the recommendations provided in Carter’s report, many anomalies would have been sorted out before the eve of elections in June this year.

“While the biometric voter registration system was well-received by stakeholders and many have contributed to fewer cases of multiple registration than past registries in the country, biometric process and technology should be carefully ‘reviewed’ in advance of future elections to analyse aspects of cost, national capacity, and privacy issues,’’ a Final Report, captured in page 20, of Carter Center on Sierra Leone’s 2012 National Elections, had recommended.

But as Sierra Leone heads to the polls again, the main opposition and the electoral commission have not reached a consensus on the acceptability of a national registered voting data.

There has been fracas being mounted by a coalition of opposition parties with their supporters displaying placards as protest for the electoral body officers to address their growing concerns on the issuance of a national voter registry.

With barely a week to the polls, a room for compromise between opposition political and ruling parties and Electoral Commission in Sierra Leone could not be avoided now in order to ensure sanity and a just electoral process.