CODEO will deploy 2,300 observers for the December 7 elections

General news for Monday, October 19, 2020

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2020-10-19

The Coalition of National Election Observers (CODEO) has said that it will deploy more than 2,000 observers in the 275 electoral districts during the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections on December 7, 2020.

CODEO Acting President Sheikh Armiyawo Shaibu made the revelations on Monday, October 19, 2020, when he delivered a speech at a three-day workshop for 30 regional coordinators ahead of the upcoming elections.

“As part of its election day observation efforts, CODEO intends to deploy a total of 2,300 independent observers, comprising stationary and roving observers. The observers will be sent to a randomly selected sample of polling stations in each of the country’s 275 electoral districts. Polling stations would be drawn using a multi-stage random sampling procedure to arrive at a nationally representative sample of all polling stations in the country, ”he said.

He said that on December 7, 2020, CODEO observers will observe the procedures from the start of the polls to the closing and counting of the ballots and will report to the CODEO National Information Center through an SMS-based platform for analysis. timely information and its subsequent dissemination to the public. .

CODEO has implemented parallel vote tabulation (PVT) since 2008 during each general election to independently verify the results of the presidential elections.

The PVT is an advanced electoral observation methodology that uses time-tested statistical principles to provide the most complete and accurate account of the voting and counting process, as well as the quality of the process across the country.

The PVT methodology will also allow CODEO to independently verify the accuracy of the tabulation process of the electoral results and the official presidential results declared by the EC. We hope that the implementation of the PVT by CODEO will continue to boost the confidence of citizens in the electoral process, as well as in its results.

“In the immediate post-election period, CODEO will also deploy 30 post-election observers to monitor post-election developments in thirty specially selected electoral districts.

“As always, CODEO will keep all interested parties and the general public informed of the findings of its observations through press releases,” said Sheikh Armiyawo Shaibu.