[ 2016-11-11 ]

Presidential ballot papers to be printed next week - EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) will early next week
begin the printing of presidential ballot papers
for the 2016 general elections, the Head of
Communications at EC, Mr Eric Kofi Dzakpasu has
said.
According to him, the commission was in the
process of printing parliamentary ballots and
notices of poll which he explained were more
involving than the presidential ballots.

Speaking on Accra-based Class FM, he said the
commission was focused and was concentrating on
the Notice of Polls and the printing of the ballot
papers.

To help curb the menace of increasing numbers of
rejected ballots, Mr Dzakpasu said the commission
has introduced some features on the ballots by
widening the black borders that separates
candidates.

Rejected ballots have over the years been a source
of worry to many since in some circumstances it
accounted for higher percentage than all the votes
of smaller parties put together.

In 2008 it accounted for 2.4 per cent of the valid
votes cast, 2 per cent less than 2004 and Mr
Dzakpasu explained that "What we are doing is that
the first black borderline that separates one
candidate from another has been widened the more
so that the thumb print of one candidate cannot
not overlap and flow into the box of another."

In the 2012 general election, 251,720 rejected
votes (2.3 percent), were higher than the total
votes secured by all the other presidential
candidates, excluding those of the NDC and the
NPP.

Source - Graphiconline

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