[ 2016-12-04 ]

SPECIAL VOTING 2: 34, 644 expected to cast ballots
A total of 34,644 people are expected to cast
their ballots in Sunday’s Special Voting
exercise that is underway across the country.

Sunday’s exercise is the extension of the
Special Voting exercise that took place on
Thursday, December 1, 2016.

The extension was triggered by missing names and
other irregularities that marred the early voting
exercise.

The decision to continue with the exercise
followed the Electoral Commission’s meeting with
representatives of the political parties in an
emergency meeting Thursday.

Thousands of security personnel, including the
Eastern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Peterkin
Yentumi-Gyinae, and others were denied the
opportunity to exercise their franchise because
their names were not on the list of the voters
register submitted to the designated polling
centers by the Commission.

The main elections come off December 7, where a
president and 275 parliamentarians will be elected
to help govern the country in the next four
years.

Special voting is a special dispensation under the
electoral laws of Ghana 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 polls to
vote on a date before the rest of the electorate
vote on the date set for the elections.

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

Source - Kasapafm

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