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General news for Thursday, October 1, 2020
Source: 3 News
2020-10-01
The registration takes place after the NDC filed a lawsuit against the EC on September 30
Dozens of eligible voters who were unable to register for their voter identity card during the registration exercise flocked to the Electoral Commission (EC) offices in Tamale and other parts of the country on Thursday, October 1 to allow them to do so on a -Day of exercise carried out at the national level by the electoral management body.
There have been reports of some of the applicants who were unable to participate in the previous exercise due to border closures.
In a statement issued on Thursday, September 24, the EC said that the measure is to “give an opportunity to those who have reached the age of eighteen (18) and to citizens who for one reason or another could not register in the recently completed Registration Exercise. ”.
The registration comes in the midst of a lawsuit filed against the EC on Wednesday, September 30, by the main National Democratic Congress (NDC) of the opposition against the exercise.
The main opposition party was seeking “a statement that the Electoral Commission has acted ultra vires in its attempt to reopen and / or register voters on Thursday, October 1, 2020 when the Electoral Commission has not caused it to be published in the Gazzette, twenty one (21) days of notification of this voter registration to political parties and the general public.
“A statement that the EC cannot proceed to reopen and / or carry out the voter registration exercise scheduled for Thursday, October 1, 2020 without first publishing in the Gazette, twenty-one (21) days notice of this registration from voters to political parties and the public. “
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