Election registration is moving at a slow but progressive pace at registration points inland in the Kavango East and West regions.
The nbc News team visited some registration points in both the Kavango East and West regions on the first day of registration on Monday.
Both challenges and positive experiences were reported.
These range from poor attendance by the people to the slow registration process.
However, the nbc News team learned that people in the village and remote areas are responding positively to the registration.
"Our first registration point was Mitwe Wombahe, where we were, from Monday up to Wednesday and we registered 74 voter cards, and today we are at Shakambu village registration points in the morning, which is when we were having applicants from the morning up to one o'clock. We registered 22 voter cards, but now we don't have any applicants outside, but from morning we were having people with those 22 applicants", said ECN Team Leader for Mashare Constituency, Masheka Elizabeth Matumbo.
"Women are coming in numbers, especially the youth and the elders; most of them are elders who are coming here; youth are few. From Monday to yesterday, on the three days of registration, the total number that we have recorded in our constituency is 131 applicants or voters who came and registered to get their voting cards," added ECN Supervisor for the Ncuncuni Constituency, Michael Mukaba.
Apart from the positive responses from the community in terms of registration, the ECN officials also touched on technical challenges, which have resulted in them opening the spare capturing machine meant to be on standby in case of a breakdown and using both at once to improve the slow capturing.
We spoke to some of the people in the queue, expressing their complaints, while others encouraged all citizens to take the process seriously.
ECN Commissioner Gerson Sindano says, according to the technical reports from the IT team, cold weather conditions can have an effect on how biometric information is captured during the registration process.
"You need blood circulation sometimes when you are dealing with the biometric machines for the machine to be able to capture. I think those are some of the explanations we are getting from some of the officials on the ground. Early in the morning, you might have a slight glitch. There are people like me who probably want to work early in the morning, and my fingers are so cold, you could have those slight glitches."
Sindano calls on Namibians to exercise patience during the registration process, as this can also help reduce mistakes in data capturing.