The Electoral Commission (EC) has organised a workshop for 1,070 election officials in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District towards the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The participants included 214 presiding officers. The rest were polling agents, party executives and biometric verification device officers.
Facilitators included the district electoral officer, Mr Gabriel Dowuona Hammond, Mr Charles Arkoh the returning officer, Mr Frederic Forson, deputy returning officer and Mr Raymond Owusu also a deputy returning officer.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency, the returning officers said that participants were taken through their various roles as election officials, adding that electoral offences were punishable so they should take the workshop serious.
Some of the electoral offences mentioned included forcing somebody to vote for a particular party; giving or receiving money or something of value as a means of inducing a person to vote or not to vote in a certain way, and intentionally destroying a poster, ballot paper or any other literature related to an election.
The District Electoral Officer said a citizen could, within 21 days after the results had been declared, challenge in the High Court and the Supreme Court the validity of an election
GNA
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