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General news for Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Source: 3 News
2020-09-22
Voter identification. Stock Photo
Elections Director for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has criticized the Ghana Election Commission (EC) for conducting the eight-day voter screening exercise.
He said that this duration is regrettably insufficient for an exercise so important that it is part of the preparation for this year’s elections.
The EC began the exhibition exercise on Friday, September 18, and is expected to end on Friday, September 25, before the December 7 elections.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Monday, September 21, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said: “The NDC wishes to state emphatically that since the beginning of the Fourth Republic, our otherwise respected EC presents the people of Ghana with such a record. anemic and ill-formed going to an important election.
“While we present impeccable evidence of anomalies in the provisional register, we will encourage Ghanaians to visit the exhibition centers to see for themselves the mess created by the CE led by Jean Mensa and Bossman Asare.
“The display of the electoral roll is a critical aspect of our electoral process. It is through the display exercise that registered citizens have the opportunity to confirm that their names and other details are duly registered on the voter list so that they will not be deprived of their rights on voting days. “
“Given the importance of exercise, the duration of exposure in that past was 11 to 21 days.”
“In 2012 the exhibition lasted eleven days. Even in 2016, where only a limited registration exercise was conducted in preparation for that election, the duration of the exhibition exercise was 21 good days. “
“Unfortunately, with the 2020 registration exercise characterized by various anomalies, violence and chaos and also involving close to 17 million potential voters, the EC rather strangely announced an 8-day exhibition exercise.”
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