Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party, has described as very worrying, the Electoral Commission’s handling of issues relating to the special voting in this year’s elections.
This follows a painstaking work carried out by the NPP that has revealed that as many as over 98,000 voters whose names are on the special voters’ list still have their names on the main register for the elections, sent to the various polling stations.
For instance, Juliet Domi, with ID number 1445501826, whose name is on the special voters list for Ayawaso Central in the Greater Accra Region, still has her name on the main register.
Others are Elvis Atsu Benson, with ID number 2648301121, voting at Kpando in the Volta Region; David Nyekoba, with ID number 5880000277, Sissila East in the Upper West Region; and Doris Nutakor, with ID number 5880012561, Awutu Senya East, Central Region.
The number of people on the special voters’ list whose names are still on the main register has the following regional breakdown: Ashanti Region, 15,111; Brong-Ahafo, 11,234; Central Region, 8,271; Eastern Region, 10,135; Greater Accra Region, 15,320; Northern Region, 11,996; Upper East Region, 6,652; Upper West Region, 2,322; Volta Region, 12,862; and Western Region, 4,313.
At least 13,000 new names were added to the special voters’ list after the period allowed by law to compile it had elapsed, pushing the figure to 127,277 voters, from the original 114,813 announced earlier by the EC.
The new list includes 500 new police recruits who have just passed out, according to EC’s Amadu Sulley.
Special voters cannot have their names on the main register sent to the various polling stations for the main elections. Their names are put on the absentee list to ensure that a person who votes during the special voting does not resurface during to the main election to vote again.
The NPP is, therefore, demanding immediate action from the EC to deal with the current anomaly.
“We are asking the EC to tell us how to stop these people from voting twice. Officials of the EC know the names of these over 98,000 people should not be on the main register sent to the polling stations but they allowed that to happen. The EC must immediately come out and tell us the steps they are taking to rectifiy these serious anomalies and deal with them because it can compromise the integrity of the elections,” Mr Adjei-Mensah demanded yesterday when the Daily Statesman contacted him on the issue.
Source: The New Statesman
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npp go to court fast.wat is this delay for.of yu allow dem to rig this elections, we will never forgive you da.
Were you not at IPAC, NPP. Stop it . All those people are going to be disabled from the BVD. period.
come to think of it, this is serious o, i feel this is basically how the NDC has stolen the election for a long while, so that lets say a polling station has 100 voters and 10 are special voters leaving 90, any figure above 90 even if its 91 at that polling station after voting is over voting but in this case since the fiqure shows 100, you may be tempted to think any fiqure up to 100 is within the right fiqure when in actual sense it is overvoting. oh I see! NPP you people need to go to court, what if they have been assigned another bar code aside the special voters one.
My dear NPP stop the noise o, if we loose this year we wont forgive the leadership o.. stop talking and go to court. charlotte osei is like a child who needs to be guided before she does the right thing, go to court if she is instructed she will do the right thing. that woman has no mind of her own, Mahama is using her paaa, bonsam at) no 3tua ka!
We are not going to court this year ooo....rig the election and see....ghana will be Syria ...we have prepared papa.
Charlotte osei Wo tw3 baggy Wai....i swear if you do anything ***barred word*** u will regret opening your legs for mahama....fffffooo0lish woman
NPP Please dont rest on this. Report it to all international media. This is how they stole the 2012 election.Double voting by so called special voters. Ghanaians are looking up to you npp. pls act fast on this. Thats the more reason WHY they delayed in giving u the final figure. EC God will punish those of u who want to subvert the will of the people. Your family will not know peace, unless u do the right thing.
Go to court oooo ho to court and let the court compel this big pu$$y woman called charlotte osei to delete them
well done
Are Sharlotte Osei, Amadu Sulley and the rest God-fearing and serious with their job entrusted into their hands and also serious with Ghanaians? Please, for the sake of free and fair you have been preaching and the election of a righteous leader who prayed for publicly, correct the anomalies as soon as practicable. Do not prove that you are in bed with NDC.