[ 2016-11-10 ]

TV cameras to be allowed in EC collation centre - EC boss
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission,
Charlotte Osei, has stated that television cameras
will be allowed to provide live coverage of
activities within the national election collation
centre at the headquarters of the commission.

Mrs. Osei disclosed this Thursday while addressing
the Editor’s Forum in Accra. The move, she said,
would ensure utmost transparency in the December
7, presidential and parliamentary elections.

“For the first time at the National Collation
Centre, we will allow the TV cameras in, so that
everyone will see the process as the results come
in from the collation centres.

“So, as the results come and as we put them
together, the whole country will have the
privilege of walking with us along that chain, so,
this makes it very difficult for anyone to play
mischief, for anyone to amend the results. Because
everyone and all the parties’ candidates and
their party agents will have the result," she
said.

She continued: “It is really impossible for the
chair of the Electoral Commission, working with
all the other commissioners, to change any of the
results because we really lack the ability to be
at the 29,000 polling stations and the 275
constituencies, and we also lack the ability to
grab the results that are being held by the
candidates and their party agents and amend all
that”.

Source - Starrfm

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