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The Electoral Commission (EC) says it has recovered most of the missing names that were detected in the newly compiled voter registry during the exposition exercise.
The Commission’s Director of Election Services, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe on Joy FM’s Newsfile program on Saturday, said the Commission is keeping 17,000 more names to fully rectify the anomalies identified.
According to him, political actors should not insist that the registry is not credible due to lack or duplication of the voter identification number, since the display process is to help identify problems in the registry and correct them properly.
“So this is a provisional record. A provisional record in the sense that it is not definitive, there are many things that have to happen, including the exhibition exercise so that the problems found occur and are corrected ”, he stated.
Since the exhibition exercise began on Sunday, the opposition Democratic National Congress (NDC) has accused the EC led by Jean Mensa of deliberately removing some names from the registry to disenfranchise some electorates.
Reiterating his position, Dr. Quaicoe said that while criticism from stakeholders is welcome, accusing the EC of certain willful acts that would otherwise disrupt the country’s democratic process is unjustified.
“The machines are operated by human beings and the human beings will make the errors and the machine will generate them and when it is detected we make the correction.
“Then they must understand that everything that has happened during the registration during and after the exhibition, so that when the final registration comes out, all these challenges that we detected will not be found,” he emphasized.
