By Edward Acquah
Accra, Nov. 7, GNA- The Electoral Commission (EC) has presented the final certified Voters’ Register for the 2024 General Election to the political parties.
Representatives of the political parties received soft copies of the register at meeting with the Commission, in Accra, Wednesday evening.
At the last Inter Party Advisory Committee Meeting on October 15, 2024, the Commission assured that it would provide the final certified Voters’ Register to the political parties in the first week of November.
The Commission conducted an Online exhibition of the corrected Voters’ Register from October 15, 2024 to October 19, 2024, as part of measures to correct all issues associated with the register ahead of the December 7 polls.
Mrs Jean Mensa, Chairperson, EC, said a total of 158 issues from registered voters across the country brought to attention of the Commission during the online exhibition exercise had been resolved.
She said no political party presented any issues regarding the register for resolution during the online exhibition period.
“I am pleased to note that we now have a robust certified final voters’ register which is fit to deliver a credible, fair, transparent, fair, peaceful, and glorious elections come the 7th of December, 2024,” Mrs Mensa said.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), however, returned their copy of the Certified Voters’ Register and demanded the Commission to furnish the Party with summaries of the register to guide its assessment.
Dr Rashid Tanko-Computer, Deputy Director of Elections and IT, NDC, said the Party would not accept the certified register until the Commission provided the Party with the summaries to indicate the total number of registered voters among other statistics.
The New Patriotic Party and the Movement for Change also asked the Commission to provide the Parties with the summaries of the register to enable them to know the total number of registered voters and the breakdown of the data.
The Commission initially agreed to provide the parties with the summaries of the register but after hours of waiting, the EC assured the political parties that soft copies of the summaries would be made available to the parties on Thursday, November 7, 2024.
Mrs Mensa said the register provided to the Parties was the final certified voters’ register, adding that although the Commission “is not obliged” by law to provide the parties with the requested summaries, the EC would honour the request “in the spirit of transparency.”
Last week, the Commission suspended the printing of presidential ballot papers, following the death of Madam Akua Donkor, flag bearer of the Ghana Freedom Party on October 28, 2024.
The EC is yet to communicate the next line of action after the GFP on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 officially presented Mr Philip Appiah Kubi as its presidential aspirant for the 2024 presidential election.
GNA