The Electoral Commission (EC) is set to begin the Limited Voter Registration exercise at its district offices across the country today despite a pending interlocutory injunction filed at the Supreme Court by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and four other minority parties.
The 21-day exercise is scheduled to end on October 2. It will start from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, including weekends.
Target
The EC has targeted to register at least 1,350,000 persons in the 2023 Voters Registration exercise based on its projection that such a number might have attained 18 years since the last registration exercise in 2020. The Upper Denkyira East Municipal Electoral officer, Mr Mensah Boateng, told the Denkyiramanradio.com that since the exercise had not taken place over the last three years for persons who have turned 18 years and above, they expect the numbers to be huge in the opening few days and hopefully after a week it will normalise.”
He said the commission expected to register an average of 8000 people to get their names registered and at the end of the exercise in the Municipal office, he urged person’s of 18 years and above to take advantage of the programme to exercise their civic responsibility.
Mr Mensah stressed that the main documents for the registration are the Ghana Card or the Ghanaian Passport.
He said in the absence of these, two individuals, who have already registered, could vouch for such persons as guarantors.
He gave an assurance that the EC would monitor and take post-registration action in order not to disenfranchise any eligible Ghanaian.
Registration will be done online using the District
Management System (DMS), as well as offline by way of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kit.
Copies of daily reports of the registration exercise from the beginning to the end will be given to political party representatives at the various registration centres, while each political party will be allowed to present one representative to observe the exercise.
Source: Ghana/DenkyiramanRadio/919 FM / TRIMUDEHEMAA YAA OFORIWAAA.
