The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has registered 9,261 in the online pre-registration exercise.
Cross River Resident Electoral Commissioner, Emmanuel Hart, said this in Calabar, the state capital, during an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security meeting, explaining that the physical registration will be for those who could not register online.
Hart said the online exercise has proven to be widely acceptable and user-friendly with yielding results.
The REC explained that the registration exercise will be rounded off in the third quarter of 2022, to enable the Commission to prepare for the 2023 general election.
On his part, the state Commissioner of Police, Sikiru Akande, who spoke as the Chairman of Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, assured of adequate security during the registration process.
The online voter pre-registration exercises, according to the INEC REC, has proven to be widely acceptable and user-friendly with real-time results.