Any security officer who misses Sunday’s window of opportunity to exercise his franchise in the second round of special voting will not be allowed to vote on December 7, the Electoral Commission has explained.
At an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee [IPAC] meeting Thursday, the EC said Sunday’s round of voting will be the last for the officers who could not vote in Thursday’s Special Voting exercise.
A total of 127, 000 voters made up of medial and security personnel as well as electoral officials who will be engaged on December 7 for various duties were expected to cast their ballot in the special voting.
But hundreds of them, mainly security officers, could not cast their ballot because their names were excluded from the list of special voters, something that triggered anxiety among the officers who feared they could be disenfranchised in this year’s general elections.
Following complaints of widespread exclusion of names of hundreds of security officers from the special voters’ list, the EC agreed Thursday night at the emergency IPAC meeting to go for a second round of voting on Sunday to afford the affected officers the last opportunity.
“The Commission explained to the parties that anyone who misses the opportunity on Sunday will not be able to vote on December 7,” TV3’s Jonathan Adams reported from the meeting.
"You can only vote in your constituency Again, all the affected officers are required to go to their respective original constituencies where they registered, to be able to cast their vote on Sunday and not where they are to perform their electoral duties.
“The EC said the fact that one had his name on the special list does not mean they can vote at where they indicated to vote. In the case where they have not done voter transfer, they will have to go to their original constituency where they registered to vote,” our correspondent reported.
It also emerged at the emergency meeting that some quasi security agencies did not apply to partake in Thursday’s special voting exercise, while some of them assumed they could vote from where they indicated on their forms.
The parties are meanwhile, urging the security services which did not apply to be part of the special voting exercise to make arrangements for their personnel to be deployed to their respective constituencies so they could vote early on election day and perform their duties there.
Source: 3news.com
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MOST OF THEM WILL STILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE BECAUSE THIR NAMES HAE SENT TO DIFFERENT CONTITUENCES AND ON DECEMBER 7 ,AN ORDER WILL BE GIVEN TO THEM TO GO AND SURERVISE THE ELECTIONS.IT IS ALL DELIBERATE,PART OF THE RIGGING PLAN
I AM TELLING YOU THAT WHAT HAPPENED ON THE iST DECEMBER WILL HAPPEN AGAIN ON SUNDAY THE 4TH OF DECEMBER,IT IS A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO DISENFRANCHISE PEOPLE THEY SUSPECT WILL NOT VOTE FOR NDC,THE SAME THING HAPPENED DURING THE NHIS SAGA,THEY JUST COMPILED SOME NAMES MOSTLY AKAN AND NORTHERN NAMES IN CONTITUENCIES THEY KNOW HAVE BEEN VOTING FOR NPP AND CANCELLED THEIR NAMES AS NHIS CARD HOLDERS EVEN THOUGH MANY HAD NEVER OWN NHIS CARDS,DURING THE REREGISTRATION ONLY HALF WERE ABLE TO REGISTER,I TELL YOU MANY WILL NOT FIND THEIR NAMES ON DECEMBRER 7,GOD WILL PUNISH CHARLOTTE ODEI AND ALL HER COLLABORATORS
Because HARLLOTT OSEI is learning on the job and SLEEPING with MAHAMA!!!
EC DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT. THIS STATEMENT ISSUED BY EC IS IRRELEVANT. RECENT EC IS NOT DOING ANYTHING RIGHT. THEY ONLY KNOW HOW TO ISSUE THREATS. IN THE FIRST PLACE EC SHOULD HAVE TOLD US HOW MANY OF 27,000 VOTED ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1 AND AT WHICH PLACES. THEN THEY GO AHEAD TO TELL US THE REMAINING SPECIAL VOTING LEFT AT WHICH SPECIFIC PLACES. THEY SHOULD ALSO EXPLAIN TO THE PUBLIC HOW THE MISTAKE AROSE AND HOW THEY HAVE WORKED TO ADDRESSED IT AND HOPEFULLY RESOLVE IT ON SUNDAY VOTING. THIS IS WHAT GHANAIANS WANT FROM THEM TO RESTORE HOPE IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. THEIR INCOMPETENCE MAKE MANY IN GHANA THINK THAT MAHAMA APPOINTED MEDIOCRE COMMISSIONERS AT EC FOR POOR JOB AND MAKE THEM A SCAPEGOAT TO CREATE CONFUSION IN GHANA BY THEIR FAILURE TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL ELECTION.
She has performed woefully, the very first civic duty she is supposed to execute. This is one of the tests of competency and not merely designing EC logo. More failure await her... EC job is easy if done with candor, transparency, fairness, etc. After, Amerikan elections, no one or entity has blamed the EC.