First year

'Namibia' IN Compendium of Elections inSouthern Africa (2002), edited by Tom Lodge, Denis Kadima and DavidPottie, EISA, 263.

A new invention was the tendered vote system. This systemenables voters who are not in their registered constituencies on the day ofvoting, to cast their vote in another constituency. The tendered vote systemwas also extended to absentee voters in foreign countries during elections.They could cast their vote in the offices of Namibia's foreign missions on thefirst day of voting.