Ashaiman MP’s name on the voter registry

General news for Sunday, September 20, 2020

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

20-09-2020

The Election Commission (EC) says that claims made by some people that 21,000 names have been removed from the voter register in the Ashaiman constituency are false.

The EC, in a statement copied to GhanaWeb, indicated that several names may be missing for reasons resulting from incomplete data transfer, as some voters can find their names on the “list of exceptions and the list of multiples”.

The EC wrote: “We have been brought to our attention by a public statement by the Ashaiman Member of Parliament (MP) on provisional voter registration for the Ashaiman constituency. The deputy is known to have stated that the names of 21,000 registered voters are not on the register.

“That is why the law incorporates and provides for the exercise of exhibition and mechanisms such as the inclusion process, which allows people who registered but cannot trace their names in the provisional registry to present their registration,” the statement continued.

The Commission stated that the exhibition exercise that will end on Friday, September 25, aims to solve the problems that may arise from the registration exercise.

Ernest Henry Norgbey, Ashaiman’s MP, had claimed that 21,000 names, including his own, could not be traced on Ashaiman’s voter registry during the current display exercise.

It accused the EC of deliberately removing those names from the registry to deprive them of their rights.

But the EC in its statement attached a part of the Ashaiman constituency register that had the photograph of the deputy in the recently completed voter registration exercise.

Therefore, the commission urged the general public to ignore the deputy’s statement as “a deliberate effort to tarnish the credibility of the commission and the voter registry.”