The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei has hinted that she may stop the declaration of the results of the forthcoming presidential elections and call for a recount if the results were to be too close.
According to her, the commission was expecting to declare the results within 48 and 72 hours after polling ends on December 7 without failure, and that the only thing that may delay or may call for recount is when the result was too close.
This, Mrs Osei said was to help avoid a declaration of the wrong person as the winner of the election since the country has been experiencing very close elections.
“Our elections in Ghana tend to be very close. If it is so close, it might be prudent to stop, inform everyone, do a total recount and be sure of what we are announcing finally,” Mrs Osei said in an interview with BBC Africa which was carried live via Facebook on Thursday.
But that explanation by the chair of the commission has been challenged with some saying they don’t really understand what the commissioner meant.
The Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for instance, Mr Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah in a radio interview on Accra based Neat FM has said the commission has no power to call for a recount.
He said it was only a candidate or a polling agent who could call for a recount. He said even with that, it has to be done at the polling station or at the constituency collation centre and that cannot be more than two times.
“Maybe the commissioner was referring to the summaries,” he said and added that it was not the duty of the EC to call for a recount since the law does not permit that, its only candidates or polling agents who can call for a recount. We don’t really understand what she means by that.”
Source: Daily Graphic
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breaking news, OPEN LETTER TO CHARLOTE OSEI OF (E,C,) it look like charlote osei want to put ghana and Ghanaian in to trouble,SHE WANT TO SEND US TO HELL BEFORE OUR TIME, she want to make ghana a hell for all ghana people, since she took over at e,c, there is no day that people dont complain about her activities , now ghana people want the number of proxy voters and she cant provide them, we want the number of forces who will be voting and she cant provide them , why does she want to impose mahama on ghana people, the who world know that mahama he failed ghana and ghana people will vote him out, mahama knows it him self that he has failed, all n,d,c people know that mahamA has failed, Ghanaians know know that mahama is a failure, why should charlote osei impose some one on us, the whole ghana have rejected, some of us have kept quiet in ghana for the past years, not that we are cowards, but we love ghana, love our people and respect the world laws, but charlote osie is pushing us and we will not allow her to destroy ghana, she is a confused , incompetent and ***barred word*** ABOUT the ,e,c, laws and she is a A DISGRACE but we will resist all repressive rule in Ghana, Ghana people will stand for their right and fight for democracy, a word to the wise is enough, charlote osei cant be seen in ghana now, she has gone to London for conference when u have not finish the electoral process, some of us know what she is up to but it wont work and we will resist and fight for our rite untill death take us from this world, all ghana people must come together to vote mahama out,, ghana is for ghana peOpole, NOTE, ALIENS MUST, SHOULD STAY OUT OF GHANA 2016 ELECTION, ALL TOGOLESE MUST, I REPEAT MUST NOT VOTE IN GHANA ELECTION, OK, FROM GHANA PEOPLE AND WORRIED GHANAIANs, NOTE, SEND THIS MESSAGAE TO EVERY GHANAIAN LIVING ON EARTH TO VOTE AGAINST MAHAMA
MADAM YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT THIS TIME AROUND YOUR STRESS WILL BE LESS BECAUSE THE GAP WILL BE TOO WIDE THAT FOR THE FIST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF OUR ELECTIONS, A COMMISSIONER WILL HEAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF. THANKS TO THE R.I.FF R.A.FF AND SHAMBOLIC OPPOSITION WE ARE WITNESSING IN THE COUNTRY TODAY. BY THE WAY IF NOT MISCHIEF, THEN HOW ON EARTH COULD PEACEFM DRAW SUCH A HEADLINE. WHEN THE WOMAN DID NOT STATE ANYWHERE IN THE STORY THAT SHE WILL EXECUTE ULTRA VIRES TO RE COUNT SHOULD THE NUMBERS BE CLOSE.
i know this woman will ask her boyfriend john incompetent ford to ask for recount when she sees that he is loosing. they can recount 1000 times john incompetent ford will still loose.
THE TRUTH IS MAHAMA IS A BARAWO AND HE IS CHOPPING GHANA MONEY BY THE MILLIONS. HIS BROTHER IBRAHIM IS CHOPPING AND SO IS A LOT OF HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY. WOYOME MONEY IS MAHAMA AND NDC MONEY. THEY SHARED THAT MONEY LONG TIME AGO. THE AG BREW APPIAH OPPONG HERSELF CHOP SOME OF THE MONEY. THE ONLY SOLUTION NOW IS FOR GHANA PEOPLE TO KICK BARAWO BANZA MAHAMA AND HIS GANG OF NDC ARMED ROBBERS IN SUIT OUT.
You've said it all. This EC lady needs her head examined. So-called lawyer such and such....educated fuuul but lacks knowledge. If you listen carefully to the way she speaks, it's obvious she's not critically and logically sounding person. Like her pay masters and his cohorts, she probably doesn't spend any time to read but continues her usual path of displaying "emotional and illogical" comments from whatever she hears on FM stations.
The Commissioner is just a confused puppet. How on earth will she stop the declaration on her own volition and start recounting the ballots simply because the results are too close. Is this woman real? Only Mahama and his appointees; so so square pegs in round holes. No wonder she is being thrashed left, right and center in the Law Courts. She should wait for her lashing from the Supreme Court on Monday. She listens to MONTIE FM too much; that is her Bain because that station is always preaching 'the EC IS INDEPENDENCE". Independence does not mean that one can operate outside the laws of Ghana. WHICH LAW GIVES THE EC THE POWER TO DO A RE-COUNT WHEN NO PARTY HAS ASKED FOR A RE-COUNT? Some EC Chair person we have.... mtchew!!! to