[ 2016-11-16 ]

Special Voting: 114, 000 to vote - EC clarifies
A little over 114, 000 voters are expected to cast
their ballot under the special voting on December
1, 2016, according to the deputy Communications
Director of the Electoral Commission, Yusif
Ayuba.

Mr. Ayuba told Morning Starr host Nii Arday Clegg
Wednesday that the list includes media personnel,
security services officials and election
officials.

According to Mr. Ayuba, the earlier list of 65,
001 put out by the Head of Communications at the
EC, Mr. Eric Kofi Dzakpasu, was not the final
list.

He explained that the election management body has
now completed the recruitment process for its
officials whose data has been added to the list
shooting the number from 65, 001 to 114, 000.

The New Patriotic Party was the first to raise red
flags over the discrepancies in the special voting
numbers saying that the 65, 001 list was not
accurate.

The EC, however, maintained that the list for
proxy voters is 554 contrary to claims by the NPP
that the list is over a 1,000.

Special voting is a special dispensation under the
electoral laws that allows registered voters who
will not be able to present themselves at their
polling stations on voting day as a result of the
roles they will play in the elections to vote on a
date before the rest of the electorate vote on the
date set for the elections.

The category of people who are allowed to do
special voting are security personnel, officials
of the EC and journalists.

On Monday, November 14, 2016 the Supreme Court
dismissed a case intended to pin the Electoral
Management Body to declare results of the Early
Voting ahead of the main polls slated for December
7.

Source - Starrfm

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