[ 2016-11-16 ]

Ashanti: Over 26,000 election officials to be deployed for voting day
Over twenty-six thousand election officers would
be deployed to play various roles to ensure the
smooth conduct of next month’s general election
in the Ashanti Region.

Mr. Lawrence Sarpong, the Deputy Regional Director
of the Electoral Commission (EC), said they would
include 131 returning and deputy returning
officers, 186 key trainers – technicians, 5,190
presiding officers, 182 collation officers, and
20,760 polling assistants.

He told journalists in Kumasi that the Commission
was given adequate training to them for the
credible conduct of the polls. The technicians and
returning officers had already completed their
training, he added. Mr. Sarpong said he was upbeat
about the successful conduct of the election
across the 5,190 polling centres in the region.

All the vital materials – ballot boxes, screens,
seals, validating stamps, electoral forms
endorsing and indelible ink were ready. He
indicated that the EC was deepening the engagement
with the media, persons with disability,
faith-based organizations and other groups to aid
everybody to have a better understanding of the
electoral rules. He said they were also
collaborating with the security agencies to make
sure that peace and security is maintained at the
various polling stations on election day.

Source - GNA

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