[ 2016-11-11 ]

EC detects discrepancies in Special Voting list
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it has detected
inconsistencies in the list of special voters
which could disenfranchise some voters.
The Central Regional Director of the Electoral
Commission, Mrs Philomena Adusei said the list of
voters given to the EC in the region for instance
had on it names of people who were to vote in
other regions.

She was speaking at a meeting at the Central
Regional Coordinating Council in Cape Coast on
Thursday.

The meeting was to afford the various heads of
departments the opportunity to brief the
coordinating council on their activities to help
forge the way forward for the region.

Mrs Adusei said her office for instance detected
that there were several voters particularly of the
security agencies whose names were given as being
expected to vote in the Central region but who by
their voter identity information were not in the
region.

She explained that the error might have occurred
because the security agencies might not have
indicated where each voter would vote.

Implications

“If you don’t find your name in the region
where you are, on the day of special voting, you
can’t vote and you cannot also vote in the main
election because your name will not be in the
register,” she pointed out.

She said the EC had contacted some of the affected
voters to rectify the situation but “some could
not be reached.”

Mrs Adusei called on the heads of the security
agencies to collaborate with the EC in Accra to
help resolve all such discrepancies before the
special voting day saying they had two weeks to do
these corrections.

Ballots being printed

He said the EC was 80 percent ready to conduct the
elections saying after all the corrections made
the EC had begun printing the ballot papers.

She said the Central region had 2482 polling
stations and added that she was optimistic that
voting would be peaceful.

She said the EC had already given all flash points
to the police and the military.

Avoid Violence

The Central Regional Minister, Mr Kweku Ricketts
Hagan called on all to help to ensure a peaceful
general election and especially the youth to
desist from violence.

On education he said government had allocated 14
new Senior High School (SHS) to increase access to
quality education.

He said the Kotokuraba market project was almost
complete saying but for considerations to add an
abattoir to the facility, it would have be
inaugurated for use.

Source - Graphiconline

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