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Tamale South Minority Leader and Member of Parliament Haruna Iddrisu has expressed concern that some residents who registered to vote have not been included in the register.
In the Banvim Presby area in the constituency, for example, where 769 voters were registered, the names on record for the display were 555, according to Iddrisu.
“There are big discrepancies in the registration and in what has been made available to registered voters,” he complained to the press.
According to the Minority Leader, it has “requested a national compilation of these discrepancies to guide what will be [the Minority’s] next possible action. ”
Talking later Eyewitness newsAshaiman MP Ernest Norgbey also said his side has “identified more than 21,000 missing names” from the records evaluated in his constituency alone.
Mr. Iddrisu also expressed his disappointment at the Commission’s inability to make Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs) available for verification as part of the ongoing voter screening exercise.
According to him, since the biological data was collected during the registration exercise, it is important that the EC test the effectiveness of the biometric verification machines, as they will be used for general elections instead of manual name verification.
“My big disappointment is that BVDs are conspicuously absent. However, we have provided an adequate budget allocation for the acquisition of BVD in amounts not less than 7,500. ”
The least he expected was that the exhibition would “take place with the availability, presence, use and testing of biometric verification devices.”
“Ideally, every electoral college should have a BVD,” he insisted to the press.
The minority leader was speaking when he visited his constituency to verify his details in the ongoing voter screening exercise.
Overall, there was low turnout on the first day of the voter screening exercise in the metropolis of Tamale and other parts of the country.
The electoral roll display exercise will last for eight days.
The exercise is carried out at 33,367 voting centers across the country.
– citinewsroom
