Response to biometric voters register exhibition not encouraging in Kumasi

Public response to the biometric voters' register exhibition continues to be low in some parts of the Kumasi Metropolis, three days into the exercise. Centres visited by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Tuesday showed little or no sign of eagerness on the part of voters to check if their names, pictures and other personal details were correctly captured. At Ohenemaa Junction Centre – Kuwait, in the Asokwa Constituency, 129 out of the 933 registered voters had checked their names. The situation at the Gonzales Educational Centre was not any better. Out of the 734 voters only 72 had shown up. At the Israel and Queens Exhibition centres, which between them have a total of 1,516 voters, 248, had turned up. Mr Eric Desmond Korsah, an Exhibition Official told the GNA that misspelling of names and errors in the ages of some of voters' were the common mistakes detected. These problems, he said, would be corrected by the Electoral Commission. He appealed to the people not to wait until the last day before rushing to the centres.

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