The Electoral Commission (EC) has told the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the purpose of exhibiting the provisional voters register was to make corrections.
It is only after the corrections are made that the final register will be printed out for the elections, the Commission said.
This practice has been the practice since 1992, it added.
“The rationale for exhibiting the provisional voters register is to correct errors and omissions. It’s only after all identified issues are corrected that the final register is printed for the elections. This has been the practice since 1992,” the commission posted on its X platform.
This was after the NDC called for a forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voter register.
Director of Elections and IT for the main opposition party, Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 said that without a forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voters register, the register remains incurably defective.
“The Electoral Commission of Ghana refused to release the voters’ register to the NDC on time ahead of the exhibition exercise,” it said.
The Electoral Commission began the exhibition of voters’ register last week for electorates to crosscheck their details if there were any corrections that needed to be made.
Prior to the exercise, the NDC had called for the voters’ register to be released to them to allow their agents make a comparison with what was given them and what the Commission was exhibiting.
But the full register was made available to the parties a day to the exercise, aside from the daily updates that were supplied to them during the voter registration exercise and the mop up that followed.
The exercise began on August 22 and ended on Tuesday, August 27 with a very low turnout.
But Dr Omane Boamah said that “It’s obvious the register has deliberately been tampered with!”.
Fellow Ghanaians,
Without a forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voters register, the register remains incurably defective.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana refused to release the voters’ register to the NDC on time ahead of the exhibition exercise.
But with hard work, dedication, and patriotic zeal, the NDC across the country has proven that the register compiled by the EC is unfit for purpose.
Without a forensic audit or thorough parliamentary investigation of the EC’s voters register, the register will remain incurably defective.
Forget about adjudication!!!
It’s obvious the register has deliberately been tampered with!
They did not expect such thorough scrutiny that has unveiled the mountains of anomalies.
The exhibition exercise has revealed avoidable problems, which, if not resolved, can jeopardize the outcome of the 2024 elections.
Constituency by constituency (based on polling stations) reports have revealed avoidable mistakes under the following headings:
1. Registered voters whose names are missing.
2. Qualified voters who are placed on the Exception list or the Multiple List.
3. Disqualified people due to multiple registrations or successful challenges who are still on the Main Provisional Voters Register (PVR).
4. People who have been transferred without their knowledge in addition to Old Transfers that are still appearing on the register.
5. People who have been moved from one polling station to another polling station.
Let me also add the awkward process that allowed voters to apply for proxy earlier this year without their biometrics being checked.
As contained in the uploaded petition, the Parliament of Ghana must investigate the Electoral Commission.
If Parliament fails, Ghanaians together with the international community, must exert enough pressure on the EC to permit forensic audit of their system, including the register.
Keep in mind that the theft of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) laptops under CCTV surveillance at the headquarters of the EC remains unresolved. Similar to the missing/stolen Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs)…
Series of public fora and demonstrations loading…
Thank you.
