[ 2016-11-22 ]

NPP raises alarm over printing of presidential ballots - Korsa
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has uncovered yet
another grand scheme by its opponents to rig the
December polls.

According to the party’s Director of Elections,
Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, they have uncovered a
major security breach at Innolink, the company
printing the ballot papers for Greater Accra and
Volta Regions.

The party alleged that the plate used for printing
the ballot papers was sneaked out by an official
of Innolink to be given to an unknown person,
which they say is unlawful and a breach of the
process.

Speaking to Citi News, Mr. Korsah said they have
lodged a complaint with the police, but called for
a full scale investigation into the matter.
He narrated that, “the report was that the
production manager, one Anderson, had handed over
a production plate to a gentleman who entered and
moved out of the place with the plate.

“According to my agent, the plate that he saw
was exactly the size of the presidential ballot. I
immediately requested that he hand over the phone
to the production manager, Anderson, so I could
inquire about this.”

“When I got him on the phone, he admitted giving
out the plate to the gentleman who is taking it
out of the place. Except that for over 10 minutes,
he could not confirm or tell me exactly what plate
was after pushing for 10 minutes without any
indication of telling me what plate it is, except
to admit that it was.”

NPP supporters gathered in front of a Cantonments
police station
Mr. Korsah was adamant that NPP would not let this
allegation slip under the radar.

“This story is not going to die. At the very
least, we may have to destroy all those ballots
there because it seems to suggest that it is
hugely compromised. So we may have to work at
it… everybody is alarmed, concerned so we cannot
treat this story lightly.”

At the time of this report officials of Innolink
were not available for comments.

NPP’s other allegation of rigging

The NPP had earlier requested an emergency meeting
of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC), over
what it described as an illegality; the printing
of pink sheets without serial numbers.

The NPP said it identified the anomaly when it
visited Aero Vote, the company contracted to print
the pink sheets for this year’s elections.
However, the Electoral Commission (EC) dismissed
these allegations describing them as false
claims.

Describing the allegations as regrettable, the
Commission said the NPP would have been better
served raising concerns with it rather than
“rush to the media with unfounded claims of
non-existent plans to manipulate election
results.”

Source - Citifmonline

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