[ 2016-12-03 ]

Early voting troubles wakeup call for EC – Brenya
The challenges that plagued the special voting
exercise organised by the Electoral Commission
(EC) on Thursday, 1 December is a wakeup call for
the election management body ahead of the main
elections on December 7, Dr Edward Brenya, a
political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has
said.

The exercise was marred by missing names of
persons supposed to be on the special voters’
list.

Persons who participated in the exercise included
military personnel as well as personnel from the
other security agencies, journalists, and
officials of the Electoral Commission.

Although 127,394 persons were expected to vote,
many were disenfranchised when they found out
their names were missing from the list on voting
day, resulting in skirmishes at some polling
centres.

Speaking in relation to this development in an
interview on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on
Friday December 2, Dr Brenya said: “Happenings
in the special voting are a wakeup call for the EC
ahead of the main elections on December 7. The EC
has to ensure that all voters have their names on
the register.

“I believe strongly that what happened yesterday
will be a big lesson for the Electoral Commission
to ensure that on December 7, those challenges are
not experienced.”

Source - Classfmonline

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