Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A Social Media Tracking Centre (STMC) that will monitor the use of social media during Ghana's 2012 elections has been set up.
The centre will provide a real time response mechanism on election irregularities, violence and other concerns by reaching out to key election stakeholders for immediate action.
The aim is to monitor all social media platforms during the elections to afford civil society, state authorities and development partners the opportunity to know in real time public opinions, sentiments and attitudes relayed through different social media platforms in order for relevant actions to be taken.
The African Election Project, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and EnoughisEnough (EiE) with support from the United Kindom's Department for International Development (DFID) is Social Media Tracking Centre (STMC).
According to Mr. Michael Ohene-Effah, Governance Advisor at DFID, "Ghana DFID welcomes and supports this ground-breaking social media tracking centre initiative.
Although there are several media monitoring activities in the mainstream media surrounding Ghana's 2012 elections, there is currently only a handful and often inefficient manual tracking of elections trends taking place in the growing social media environment.
Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC), comes at an opportune time, since there is ample evidence pointing to lack of efficient social media monitoring capability among key actors covering Ghana's 2012 elections.
Mr Jerry Sam, Project Manager of African Elections Project, explained that the real-time data capturing ability of the SMTC will allow for up-to-the moment incidents taking place in different areas around the country, to be collated, analysed and transmitted as alerts and to relevant elections stakeholders such as the National Elections Security Task Force (NESTF), civil society actors, the media and Electoral Commission, among others for necessary action to be taken.
He said it was expected that monitoring social media powered by SMTC will provide valuable feedback and focus on how alerts coming out of the SMTC will serve as early warning mechanism thereby contributing significant reduction of electoral violence while at the same time ensuring transparent and free elections.
Mr Sam said the African Elections Project was established in 2008, with the vision of enhancing the ability of journalists, citizen journalists and the news media to provide more timely and relevant election information and knowledge while undertaking monitoring of specific and important aspects of governance.
http://graphic.com.gh/Politics/centre-to-monitor-2012-elections-on-social-media.html
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Ghana Elections 2012 : The C-Section of Mama Ghana and the ECs PR department
Sunday, December 9, 2012
President Mahama wins Ghana Elections 2012
President John Dramani Mahama is the winner of the 2012 presidential election.
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan announced on Sunday night that he polled 5,574,761 votes (50.70%) while his closest contestant Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic (NPP) polled 5,248,898 votes (47.74%).
The other results were:
Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster of the Convention People's Party (CPP) - 20,323 (0.18%)
Mr Hassan Ayariga of the People's National Convention (PNC) - 24,617 (0.22%)
Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) - 64,362 (0.59%)
Dr Henry Lartey of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) - 38,223 (0.35%)
Mr Joseph Osei-Yeboah (Independent) - 15,201 (0.14%)
Mr Akwasi Addai of the United Front Party (UFP) - 8,877 (0.08%).
The percentage turn out was 79.43
Total Registered voters were 14,158,890
Total votes cast were 11,246,982
Total Valid Votes -10,995,262
Total Rejected votes -251,720
Total constituencies – 275
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Ghana Elections 2012 – the story so far
Here are a few things we know about Ghana's 2012 elections.
It's going to be close. With 168 of 275 constituencies reporting, incumbent John Mahama has 49.83% of the vote and his chief rival Nana Akufo-Addo has 48.68% of votes. That's lots closer than polls, which predicted a victory for Mahama, had been suggesting. Given that the third party candidates have less than 2% of the votes, a run-off seems possible, if both Mahama and Akufo-Addo remain below the 50% mark.
It wasn't perfect. This was Ghana's first election with a new biometric voter identification system. A massive registration drive issued voter ID cards that include information on the bearer's thumbprint. Voters present their card, verify their thumbprints and are then able to vote. This system malfunctioned in some locations, leading to long lines and hot tempers, and the electoral commission extended voting into today to ensure everyone can exercise their franchise.
One of the reports I read yesterday on Twitter suggested that some of the people having bad problems were people who work with their hands, suggesting that scars or blisters might be interfering with the scanner. An article today offered advice on cleaning hands using Coke or akpeteshie (locally distilled sugar-cane or palm wine liquor) to create more readable prints.
Ghana invested heavily in biometric systems because there's understandable concern about voter fraud. The 2008 election was settled by less than 40,000 votes and there was widespread concern that voters were sneaking across the border from Togo to vote, or voting multiple times. Stories like this one, in which biometric machines are revealing multiple attempts to vote, are getting good play in Ghanaian social media. (Great article, from the headline that implies a Robocop-style machine arresting the miscreant to descriptions of the gentleman's alacrity in eluding authorities. :-) Given successes like this one, it's likely that biometric voting will continue, with some fine tuning, in subsequent elections.
It was pretty damned impressive. Ghana has had a series of increasingly credible elections, starting in 1992, and capturing international interest in 2000, when a free and fair election ousted the party of former dictator (and later democratically elected leader), Jerry Rawlings. 2000, you may remember, was the year of endless Bush v. Gore drama in the US, and my friend Koby Koomson, then Ghana's ambassador to the US, sent me a copy of the letter he'd sent to President Clinton, offering Ghana's assistance to the US in election monitoring.
There's a wealth of articles that celebrate Ghana's successful democracy, including helpful insights from economist George Ayittey, who attributes democratic success to a strong and independent media, a vibrant set of NGOs, and maturity on the part of the nation's politicians, who notes that the 2008 election could easily have turned chaotic, had not Akufo-Addo graciously conceded.
What's interesting for me, as a passionate Ghanaphile, but an outsider to the political process, is that watching Ghana's elections is a helpful tutorial in global good electoral practices.
The video above, from the Ghana Decides project, shows the vote counting process in one of the poorer neighborhoods of Accra, the historically Muslim neighborhood of Nima. The transparent boxes, the public sorting of ballots and the crowd watching the process are all parts of an intricate system that helps remove uncertainty from the results.
So are images like this one: the results from a specific polling place, publicly posted. In Zimbabwe's last presidential election, posting these votes allowed the opposition ZANU-PF to conduct a parallel vote tabulation and contest MDC's assertions that they had won outright. Parallel tabulation efforts are underway in Ghana, as well, with multiple monitoring, civil society and media organizations trying to ensure that the electoral commission's results are in line with the reports at tens of thousands of polling places.
I'l be very interested to learn what my friends Mike Best at Tom Smyth at Georgia Tech and the team at PenPlusBytes learn from their experiments in social media monitoring. (Disclosure: I'm on the board of PenPlusBytes, and am advising Tom's on his dissertation.) They've been aggregating tens of thousands of reports via Twitter, Facebook and blogs, and following up on reports of violence or conflict. By monitoring Ghana's peaceful elections, they hope to establish best practices for using their tools in monitoring more contentious ones, hoping to defuse violence before it unfolds.
I'll offer two disappointments in Ghana's elections. One is that Ghana continues moving towards being a purely two-party state. One of the benefits of a two-round electoral system (which forces a run-off if no one receives 50% + 1 vote in the first round) is that it encourages people to vote for smaller parties to express preferences, knowing they can vote strategically in a second round. But Ghanaian politics appears to have turned into a battle between NDC and NPP, with few surprises, even when the third party candidates are smart, engaging and adding to the dialog.
Second, NDC and NPP allegiances often have more to do with geography and tribe than with platform. I saw a dispirited tweet last night that suggested the best way to improve your electoral chances was to increase the birthrate in the parties' respective strongholds. It's disappointing to see elections based more on ethnicity than on issues, but it's also clear this isn't the reason behind everyone's vote.
Here's hoping that a close race remains and peaceful one and that Ghanaians continue to have justifiable pride in a robust and transparent electoral system and a healthy democracy.
Ghana Elections 2012 : Presidential and parliamentary election produces amazing outcome in Western Region
Presidential and parliamentary election produces amazing outcome in Western Region |
Takoradi, Dec. 08, GNA - This year's presidential and parliamentary elections have produced amazing outcomes in the Western Region with some New Patriotic Party (NPP) incumbent members of parliament suffering defeat. |
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Ghana Elections 2012 : National Election Security Task Force [NESTF] asks for restrain
The National Election Security Task Force [NESTF] wishes to express its profound gratitude to the public for their co-operation and for the good behaviour they have put up so far in the on-going general election.
This is the time for us to continue to support and co-operate with one another to ensure that voting at the few remaining polling stations are successfully completed. The public are further entreated to continue to maintain the peace the country is enjoying.
We, however, wish implore the members of the public to be moderate in the way they go about their celebration to avoid excesses, as it could erode the gains and successes we have all chalked together.
Furthermore, the public are also advised to exercise patience and wait till the Electoral Commission declares the final results before celebration
This is the time for reconciliation, togetherness and nation building, and we must all jealously guard against the gains made.
The public are however cautioned against attacks on vital installations and other facilities. The Police and their Sister Security agencies will not hesitate to do everything legitimate to maintain law and other.
AG. DIRECTOR/PUBLIC AFFAIRS
[CEPHAS ARTHUR] DSP
Friday, December 7, 2012
Ghana Elections 2012 : President Mahama to meet the press
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
EC to declare winner in three days
Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission on Wednesday said the Commission would declare the results of Friday's election within 72 hours after the close of polls even though the country would know who is winning in 48 hours.
The Commission, he said, would not rush to announce the Presidential result but would work within reasonable time to announce it.
Speaking at a news conference organized by the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) in Accra to bring to light the preparedness of the EC for Friday's election, Dr Afari-Gyan said all materials needed for the elections were already on the field to be distributed to the polling centres very early on Friday.
He said the verification machines were tried and tested during the Tuesday's Special Voting, and was convinced that they were healthy for the job ahead even in the largest polling centres.
Answering questions on the problems associated with the Special Voting where some security officials were not able to vote because their names were missing from the register, he noted the blame could not be put at the doorstep of the Commission because it was the security agencies, which failed to submit the particulars of their ID cards and polling stations during the compilation of the list for the special voting.
"The EC cannot distinguish between professionals so in an exercise like this, we rely on information from the various security agencies who compiled the list for us", adding that it was based on the information provided that the Commission compiled the list of 29,914 members of the security services.
"It has been agreed that those, who were unable to vote should go to their polling stations on Friday to vote", he said, and noted that both personnel and the media who have their accreditation, would be allowed to go ahead of the queue when they go to their polling stations so they could vote early and go back to work on Election Day.
Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told the media that as a matter of principle and his friendship with all the candidates, he would not vote in the Friday's election.
On a lighter note, he said, "a referee does not have to vote for one team" because it would be practically the same as taking sides.
He said the EC would still rely on fax machines to receive results from returning officers because it was important to see signatures endorsing the results and copies available to political party representatives to quicken the pace.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
NDC rounds off campaign with a rally
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) rounded off its campaign with a mammoth rally at the Trade Fair site with thousands of supporters in attendance certain of victory in the December 7 polls.
Party big wits took their turn to address the large crowd clad in the red, white, green and black colours of the party, amidst dancing and singing.
Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the NDC General Secretary asked the supporters to be vigilant on December 7th to ensure victory for the party and second term to carry out its development agenda.
He said while ensuring vigilance it was important that the supporters go about their duties in a peaceful manner to ensure that they did not play into the grand plans of the opposition to disrupt the elections.
Mr Asiedu-Nketia urged the supporters not to get into conflict with security personnel on duty to maintain peace and order at the polling stations.
Dr Kwabena Adjei, NDC Chairman, said it was not only polling agents, who needed to be on their guard, but every supporter of the party must remain watchful to nib the plans of the opposition in the bud.
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Local Government and Rural Development Minister, said the government had been able to complete 15,000 projects in the areas of education, health, roads among others.
He said there was hope for the youth in the next four years when the NDC was re-elected into power.GNA
NPP's massive final rally brings Accra to a standstill
The rally was used as a platform to sink down the NPP's message of "Free SHS" for Ghanaians, which has become a mantra for many people including school children.
Ghana goes to the polls on December 7th to elect a President and 275 legislators, who will govern the nation for the next four years.
Vehicles moved at a snail's pace as a result of the huge vehicular traffic caused by the movement of horde of party supporters from various parts of the Greater Region to the rally ground.
The whole Ministries area to the entrance of the rally ground was packed full of party supporters as they struggled their way to the Afua Sutherland Children's Park to observe proceedings amidst heavy Police presence.
As at about 10am, supporters dressed in party colours had started arriving at the venue in their numbers, with traders of food and party paraphernalia cashing in on the rally.
The crowd kept swelling with time as every available space was covered, amidst drumming, singing and dancing.
As the gurus of the party climbed on the podium to speak, they were met with rapturous applauses.
When the name of the tough-talking Member of Parliament for Assin-North, Kennedy Agyapong was mentioned, the crowd was thrown into a state of wild jubilation with a chant of Fanti war song "Adumakoma Odapagyen".
In the middle of his presentation, the arrival of Nana Akufo-Addo, NPP Presidential and his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was announced with the song "Nana is a winner". This threw the crowd into rage with everyone struggling to catch a glimpse of their presidential candidate.
There were chants of 'We want Free SHS" with Nana Addo responding to the cheers from the crowd with a wave of two of his fingers to signify victory and blown kisses of appreciation.
The Police and security men of the NPP had a hell of time controlling the crowd and occasionally had to use 'minimum force' to send them back as Nana Akufo-Addo walked to the stage.
People were seen dressed in school uniforms and holding their trunks and chop boxes to signify their acceptance of the "Free SHS" policy.
The rally was also used as a platform to educate party faithful on the voting process to ensure their votes were not rejected.
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Journalists urged to report accurately on election 2012
Journalists have been urged to acquaint themselves with the rules and regulations governing the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections in order to give out the right information to the public.
"You serve as watch-dogs over everybody. When you do not do your job well, you do a great disservice, not only to your selves, but the entire nation as well," Mr. Alexander Poku-Akubia, Greater Accra Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, said this at a workshop for the media in Accra on "Enhancing the Credibility and Confidence of the Electoral Process."
He said especially on the day of voting, information comes from some media outlets, which upon verification often proved to be false.
Mr. Poku-Akubia said all it took for journalists to avoid giving out such false information, which was often alarming as well, was to have knowledge about some key aspects of the election, and also cross-check their facts thoroughly.
He said mechanisms which were absolutely trustworthy had been laid down to ensure that there were no fraudulent activities such as people voting more than once.
He said besides the laid down measures, the Biometric Verification System, ultimately ensured that all voters were indeed credible.
Mr. Poku-Akubia reminded the public that there were laid down legal procedures for reporting any suspicious or illegal act, adding that it was therefore very unnecessary for anyone to take the law into their own hands.
"The system is full of legal provisions for resolving issues. There is no need for any one to ever take the law into his own hands."
The workshop was a collaboration between the Electoral Commission, the United States Agency for International Development and the KAB Governance Institute.
Ghanaians go to the polls on Friday, December 7th 2012.
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NMC AND NCA call on media to ensure free and responsible coverage on Election Day
The National Media Commission (NMC) and the National Communications Authority (NCA) on Tuesday met and discussed ways to improve broadcasting regulation in order to ensure free and responsible coverage of the December 7 elections and the post election period. A joint communiqué signed and issued by Mr George Sarpong, Executive Secretary of the NMC and Mr Paarock VanPercy, Director General of the NCA noted that the broadcast and other electronic media in Ghana had contributed immensely in developing the democratic culture of Ghana. The communiqué indicated that the support of the media was crucial for the success of the 2012 election and that both the NMC and NCA had faith in the capacity of the media in Ghana to behave responsibly. It further said that the NMC and NCA recognized that there was a fringe of media practice which bordered on unprofessional practice. The communiqué said: "It is the view of the two institutions that the peace, stability and cohesion of the nation depend in part on the behavior of the media as we go into the elections on December 7th. It said: "Whiles the two institutions will take every reasonable step to support the media to perform their duties, we shall not hesitate to call to order any aberrations intended to undermine our collective peace and security and to throw our nation into chaos." The communiqué also drew the attention of broadcasters and other electronic media to their responsibility and particularly to abide by the terms of their broadcast authorization, the various guidelines of the NMC and the code of conduct of the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA). The two institutions have accordingly set up a Joint Committee to monitor the performance of the electronic media before, during and after the 2012 General Election and would duly apply the necessary sanctions against errant media houses, the communique stated.
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High turnout at registration centres put pressure on staff
High turnout at the eight voter registration centres in the Kassena Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region is mounting pressure on the registration staff. A court ordered the Electoral Commission to conduct registration of voters in the eight registration centres of the Atosale\Azaasi and Akumkongo\Abempingo electoral areas in the Kassena Nankana Municipality, where 3,000 people failed to register when the rest of the country was registering under the biometric system last March. Some people, who went on Monday to register, were not able to do so because of the long queues. |
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Performance of verification machines satisfactory
Election officials in charge of Tuesday's Special Voting at Anloga, Keta, Dzodze and Denu have described the performance of the voters' verification machines as satisfactory.
They were optimistic that the machines would not pose any major challenge during Friday's presidential and parliamentary elections.
The only challenge during the special voting in those areas were the absence of names of some security personnel on the special voters' registers, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) was told.
Mr Felix Dabi, the Returning Officer at Denu, said about 25 persons could not find their names in the special voters' list of 790 personnel.
He said about 500 of the special voters had cast their ballots by 1200 hours.
Mr Emmanuel Odonkor, Aflao and Dzodze Districts Police Commander confirmed a similar situation at Dzodze where 162 security personnel were not on the list of 580 special voters.
At Keta the names of 17 personnel could not be found in the list of 630 voters.
Affected persons contacted declined to comment.
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Police institutes adequate measures for peaceful elections in Brong-Ahafo Region
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Robert Ayalingo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Commander on Tuesday said a well equipped joint operation centre would be established at the Regional Police Headquarters to receive information on all issues on the elections on Friday, December 7.
It would include a sub-committee on media, intelligence investigations, legal and prosecution.
DCOP Ayalingo said the centre would coordinate and monitor the elections to respond quickly and nib any electoral violence in the bud as well as periodic briefing to the press on situational reports.
He was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani on measures instituted to ensure violence free elections in the Region.
DCOP Ayalingo urged the media to be closer to the centre for reliable information but not rely on the general public for false information likely to create tension in the Region.
He said more than 300 security personnel would be dispatched from Accra after the special voting to beef up the 2,800 personnel to cover the 2,740 polling stations in the Region.
DCOP Ayalingo said two security personnel would be positioned in each of the 540 flash points identified.
He pointed out that Special Task Force Personnel from Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) and Special Weapon and Tactics Unit (SWAT) trained to handle riots would be deployed to the flash points to ensure the electorate exercised their franchise without fear and intimidation.
DCOP Ayalingo said 10 sports utility vehicles had been acquired for the Brong-Ahafo Regional Security Task Force for monitoring on December 7.
Seventy-four pickups from public institutions and 20 buses had been mobilized in addition to 75 Police vehicles to enhance operations in the flash points.
DCOP Ayalingo said the Police Administration had made provision for all the necessary logistics support for effective and efficient performance on Election Day.
He said all health institutions in the Region had been contacted to ensure the availability of health personnel to attend to emergencies in addition to 15 ambulances available for the 29 constituencies in the Region.
On security personnel, who could not trace their names for the Tuesday Special Voting, DCOP Ayalingo said a list had been compiled and would be on duty at polling stations closer to where they registered to enable them exercise their franchise on December 7. while performing their duties efficiently.
He pointed out that some Regional commanders of security agencies failed to submit their names when they were being compiled, while some cases were genuine omissions on the part of the Electoral Commission (EC).
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Ghana Elections 2012 : The 3,000 voters in Kasena still cannot vote - Supreme Court Judge
Media urged to avoid sensationalism in election reporting
The Eastern Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr Paul Boateng, has appealed to media personnel to avoid exaggeration in electoral reporting as their contribution towards peaceful elections this year. He urged the media to present the facts as they are to the electorate to enable them make their own decisions. Mr Boateng was interacting with media personnel from some media houses from the Eastern Region in Koforidua on Monday. Mrs Faith Amedzake, Deputy Director of the EC, said a voter could thumbprint the ballot paper several times provided the printing did not cross into the column of other candidates. She said ballot papers used to cast the vote without the validation stamp of the EC behind them would not be counted as valid votes and appealed to agents of the political parties to be vigilant and ensure that all ballot papers are validated. Mr Erick Mensah-Bonsu, first Deputy Regional Electoral Officer, said the region has 1,429,682 registered voters within the 33 constituencies with 2,971 polling stations. He said 152 parliamentary candidates filed their nomination in the region with 12 of them being females and there are 17 independent candidates. Mr Mensah-Bonsu said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) filed candidates in all the 33 constituencies.
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Names of security personnel missing from the special voters register
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Special voting takes of smoothly in Central Region
Security personnel from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Prison Service and EC officials queued at the Police Headquarters polling centre in the Cape Coast North constituency and at the Fire Service Headquarters in the Cape Coast South constituency, to exercise their franchise. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) observed that at the Regional Police headquarters as at 0900 hours, 117 personnel had voted out of 656 eligible voters designated to cast ballot at the centre while at the Fire Service Headquarters, 85 out of 435 personnel had voted as at 0914 hours. Mr Anthony Nyame, Cape Coast Metropolitan Director of the EC, told GNA that voting started exactly at 0700 hours and that there were enough voting materials for the exercise. He said agents of political parties contesting the December 7 polls were present to observe the exercise. |
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Police Officers complain of missing names from register
Some senior police officers in Accra are complaining that their names cannot be found in the voters register and therefore they cannot take part in the special voting exercise that is currently on-going across the country. When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the polling station at the Kaneshie Police Station, some of the Senior Police Officers who spoke on conditions of anonymity said more than 40 Officers could not find their names in the voters register even though they were told by their superiors that they were to cast their votes at that particular polling station. According to the Officer, those who could not find their names were registered at the Police Training Depot at Tesano and wondered why their names were not included in the register. He said when they complained to the Presiding Officer at the polling Station, they were told nothing could be done unless they waited till Friday December 7 before they could exercise their franchise. He, however, appealed to the Electoral Commission (EC), to find an alternative solution to the problem because most of them may be working outside their constituencies on Friday. Mr Joseph Quartey, the Electoral Officer at the Station confirmed the story and said the exercise had, however, been peaceful and that he was expecting 1,434 security personnel and other EC officials to cast their votes. |
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Names of some security personnel not found in register during special voting
Election officials at the Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Headquarters could not trace the names and particulars of the disenfranchised voters on the biometric voters register.
The other disenfranchised voters comprised personnel from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Immigration Service and the Third Battalion of Infantry (3BN).
They were, however, disappointed after they had joined a long queue only to realise that their names were not on the register.
One of them, a military officer, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on condition of anonymity that though he did not check his particulars during the exhibition exercise, he used the text code to ascertain his eligibility.
Meanwhile when the GNA visited the polling station, only the National Democratic Congress (NDC), New Patriotic Party (NPP), Progressive People's Party and Convention People's Party (CPP) had their polling agents present.
A total of 1,132 eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots.
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