The head of Ethiopia’s National Election Board (NEB) said on Monday that although over 25.6 million people had registered to vote in the country’s third-ever democratic ballot, some abuses of the registration process had occurred. Kemal Bedri, the NEB’s chairman, told reporters at the board’s headquarters in the capital, Addis Ababa, that irregularities had been reported in the south. Children had been registered to vote, and multiple ballots had been given to some people.