The object of this Bill is to amend the Electoral Process Act, 2016, so as to—

(a) reduce the campaign period from three months to sixty days;

(b) revise the rules to be prescribed in relation to the registration of voters;

(c) provide for the duty of the Commission to publish the election time table in a newspaper of nationwide circulation in addition to the publication in the Gazette;

(d) prescribe the conduct of persons during the counting, tallying, tabulation of votes and transmission of results;

(e) revise the manner of accreditation of observers and monitors;

(f) provide for sanctions to be imposed by the Commission for breach of the Code;

(g) provide for regulation of conduct of political party agents; and

(h) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.