The Electoral Commission will from Tuesday, September 12 to Monday, October 2, 2023 begin registration of new voters ahead of the district-level elections.
The Commission has announced that the district level elections will be held on Tuesday, December 19, 2023 and hopes to register 1,350,000 new voters by the close of the registration exercise this year.
Dr. Bossman Asare, Deputy Chairman of the Commission in charge of Corporate Services, assured the general public of an effective exercise.
Speaking in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" morning show, Dr. Bossman Asare urged those who couldn't participate in previous registrations to take advantage of this exercise to get their names in the voters' register.
But the National Chairman of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu has shared dissenting views on the exercise.
Reacting on the Kokrokoo show Monday morning, Nana Ofori Owusu opined that this exercise will deny many eligible Ghanaians of their voting right.
He explained that the district offices of the EC across the nation are far, so making it costly and difficult for people to travel miles away to register their names.
In so doing, to him, instead of the exercise reaching its goal, it will rather "disenfranchise Ghanaians and you add extra cost, extra burden to the Ghanaian exercising his citizen right".
"We don't learn from our mistakes", he scolded the Commission and made reference to same issues with proximity of EC district offices being raised years ago, stressing but "nothing has been done about it till date".
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