Names of security personnel missing from the special voters register

Some security personnel who showed up at the Subin sub-metro polling centre in Kumasi to vote became disappointed as they could not find their names in the special voters register.        Security personnel and staff of the Electoral Commission (EC), who would be on duty on December 7, are voting 72 hours ahead.        Mr Gilbert Asante, Deputy Returning Officer at the centre, said those whose names were not on the electoral roll could still cast their ballot on elections day.          He said the hitch might have been caused by the non-submission of voter identification (ID) cards by the officers to their headquarters during the compilation of names of the early voters.       The affected officers, however, expressed anxiety that they might after all not be able to exercise their franchise.          This is because they are likely be deployed to polling centres outside constituencies where they registered.           A total of 1,540 officers are expected to vote at the Subin sub-metro centre and as of 1000 hours, when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited, 350 of them had already voted.          Voting, which started at exactly 0700 hours, had so far been smooth with the verification machines working very well. GNA