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Election Commission (EC) Vice President Dr. Bossman Asare says no more than 700 voters will be allowed in a polling station during the December 7 elections.
Ghana will go to the polls to elect a new president and deputies in less than 75 days, the EC has been devising measures to reduce the number of voters.
“In 2016, the threshold for each polling station was a maximum of 850 but due to the pandemic in 2020. This is what the commission says; the maximum that will be allowed in each electoral college will be 700 ”, he explained.
Speaking at the Star-Ghana Election 2020 Grant Partner Learning Event, Dr. Bosman Asare indicated that any polling place that exceeds that number of voters will be categorized into groups.
“Any registration center that has more than 700 people, we will divide them into A and B,” he said.
The Commission’s initiative is part of the measures adopted to control the spread of the new coronavirus.
During the voter registration exercise, the Commission received a lot of criticism and some people feared that Covid-19 cases in the country would escalate.
With the country still working on the total elimination of the virus, the EC has assured that it will implement measures so that the electorates are safe in all polling stations.
