The   National   Identification   Authority   Act,   2006   (Act   707)   has   been   passed   by   Parliament,   and   subsequently   the   National   Identification   Authority   (NIA)   has   been   established.   The   Authority   has   since   trained   personnel   to   man   the   Mass   Registration   Work   Station   (MRWS).   The   mass   registration  exercise  is  being  piloted  in  some  regions.   Integrate  Voter  Cards  and  National  Identification  Cards     Stakeholders  propose  that  consideration  should  be  given  to  integrating  the  Voter  and  National   ID  cards  so  that  the  National  ID  card  would  serve  also  as  a  voting  card.  This  they  contend  would   make  savings  for  the  nation  and  avoid  duplication  of  efforts.     3.7.2   Regularly  revise  Voters  Register   The  Electoral  Commission  (EC)  undertook  the  revision  of  the  Voter  Register  in  preparation  for   the  December  7  elections.     The  initial  concerns  about  the  operational  errors  in  the  generation  of  the  voters’  statistics  were   allayed   by   the   EC   working   in   close   collaboration   with   the   Inter-­‐Party   Advisory   Committee   (IPAC).   Transition  Period   Stakeholders   expressed   concern   about   the   short   transition   (one   month)   period   between   holding   of   elections   and   swearing-­‐in   of   the   new   administration.   They   contend   that   in   cases   where  presidential  run-­‐offs  have  occurred  the  period  is  reduced  to  a  few  days  (10  days).  The   short  period,  they  argued,  does  not  augur  well  for  an  effective  handing-­‐over  process.  There  was   consensus  that  the  transition  period  be  extended  to  at  least  three  months.     3.8   Voter  Education   A  number  of  institutions  including  the  EC,  National  Commission  for  Civic  Education  (NCCE),  the   Information   Services   department   (ISD)   and   civil   society   organizations   are   undertaking   voter   education.  Disagreements  still  exist  between  NCCE  and  the  EC  on  the  issue  of  voter  education.         31