[ 2016-11-14 ]

Don't joke with early voting: Amoako-Tuffuor
NPP elder Dr Kwame Amoako-Tuffuor has urged
members of the main opposition party to take
special voting seriously in this year’s general
elections.

Special voting or early voting is done days ahead
of the December 7 polls every election year. It is
organised for staff of the Electoral Commission,
security officers, journalists and others who will
be busy on election day.

“I’ll like to entreat all our party members
and all citizens of this country that under no
circumstances should you play with the special
voting. You must count the number of people who
come there to vote and let’s have a national
result of the numbers that vote on that day so
that we do not run into any misfortunes later. I
know what I’m talking about,” he told Class
News on Monday, 14 November shortly after the
Supreme Court’s dismissal of a case he filed
through which he sought the highest court of the
land to compel the Electoral Commission (EC) to
announce results of the special voting on the same
day such votes are cast.

This means that votes cast in the special voting
dispensation will be counted along with the
ballots cast on Election Day, December 7.

In the suit, Dr Amoako-Tuffuor and two other
plaintiffs argued that those who take part in the
Special Voting must not be made to wait until
Election Day before the results of the early
voting are announced.

The plaintiffs argued that section 23 of C.I. 94
– the law that regulates national elections –
was at variance with Article 49 of the 1992
Constitution.

Meanwhile, Dr Amoako-Tuffuor has said he accepts
the ruling of the court. “I’d like to make it
publicly clear that I respect the Supreme Court, I
respect their decision. I may have a different
opinion altogether because of other issues that
I’m aware of. We should back our courts so that
they always give us the right decisions and the
kinds of things that can move our democracy
forward,” he urged.

Source - Classfmonline

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