[ 2016-12-05 ]

148K election officers, 64K security personnel deployed for Wednesday
A total of 148,000 election officials have been
deployed to the over 28,000 polling stations
across the country for Wednesday’s general
elections to elect a president and 275
parliamentarians.

A statement issued by the Electoral Commission
said 64,000 security personnel have also been
deployed to provide security and maintain law and
order at the various polling stations.

Over 15 million eligible Ghanaian voters are
expected to cast their vote in this year’s
elections, which is has become a contest between
the National Democratic Congress’ John Mahama
who is seeking a second term and Nana Akufo-Addo
of the New Patriotic Party who is also making his
third attempt at the presidency. In all, seven
presidential candidates are contesting the
presidential election with 1,158 people, of which
135 are females, contesting for 275 parliamentary
seats.

The elections started last Thursday with a special
voting exercise for the media, security personnel
and other electoral officials who will be engaged
for electoral duties on December 7.

According to the Commission, it has dispatched
70,709 Biometric Verification Devices and each
polling station is expected to receive two of the
devices to authenticate registered voters before
they are cleared to vote.

The Commission said it has accredited over 12,000
local observers and more than 400 foreign
observers for the election, which the Commission
says will be a world class standard.

Source - 3news.com

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