We don’t need to publish the names of 2020 ‘banned’ voters – CE

General news for Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Source: Daily mail

2020-11-11

The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected calls from the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to publish the names of the 2020 voters that it had removed from the country’s voter registry for the December 7 general elections.

At least 30,000 names were deleted from Ghana’s electoral register, according to the EC. Affected individuals were said to have participated in multiple searches or were challenged and unauthorized by the various district review committees.

Therefore, they would not be able to participate in the December 7 elections and will also be banned from registering as voters for a time.

Commenting on the calls from the EC to publish those names, the Director of Elections in Dr. Serebour Quarcoo noted that the EC will not accept the request.

“… If you registered more than once, you know that you have more than one identity card, you yourself know that you have registered more than once and I shouldn’t tell you. I don’t need to publish your name before you know it, ”he told Accra-based Citi FM.

Meanwhile, the EC is deploying seventy-four thousand eight hundred new biometric verification devices to be used in the elections on December 7.

Reporting to Parliament on the preparation of the electoral management body for the upcoming elections on Saturday 7 November 2020, Jean Mensah hoped that the new devices “will improve the integrity and credibility of the elections.”

“The improved features of the devices are expected to speed up the verification process and go a long way toward ensuring that only people whose biometric details are captured in our system vote on Election Day,” said Mensah.