The Electoral Commission (EC) will not accept old voters ID cards as a a primary form of identification in the new registration exercise planned for April 2020.
This will be enforced if the new proposal for amendment in the legislation for the registration currently before Parliament becomes law.
The EC on Monday (March 16) sent a proposal to Parliament for an amendment in the Constitutional Instrument 91 (CI) which guides the conduct of elections in Ghana.
In the new proposal the EC is seeking an amendment in Regulation 1, which talks about documents to be accepted as a form of identification as a Ghanaian before registration.
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu made this known in a radio interview Wednesday morning (March 18, 2020).
He was speaking to Accra based Okay FM which was monitored by Graphic Online.
He said if it becomes law, the only primary documents to be accepted for registration would either be a Ghanaian passport or a Ghana national identification card (Ghana Card).
It excludes birth certificates.
Anyone who does not have any of those two documents would have to get people to vouch for them that they were indeed Ghanaians before they will be registered.
Per the move, anyone holding an old voters ID card issued from 2012 till date cannot use it to register.
This is because of the assumption that some people used national health insurance (NHIS) ID cards for the initial registration which has been outlawed by the Supreme Court and the EC ordered to remove names of people who used it to register.
Even though the EC before the 2016 general elections removed names of those who registered with the NHIS cards as their primary form of identification, Graphic Online understands there is still arguments in some political circles that there are some names still in the current register.
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Source: Daily Graphic
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You are on point, Ghana is fond of wasting resources. If Passport and National Identification Cards are now the only recognized IDs, then why are we not going to use them to vote but rather waste more money for registration at this very time when all over the world people are staying away from crowded areas. Why are our people so power-drunk. haaba!
This woman is really Jezebel, a terrible witch. How can one person take the whole nation by storm. She has been planted by satan to plunge our beloved country into ditch. From the time she made a decision for new voters register, she keeps shifting the goal posts amid civil society disagreement. Her arrogance and impudence smacks of the devil himself. Whoever has connived with her to do this will be exposed by God. No wonder the conoravirus is spreading like wildfire, it will really reach her very soon. You can't cheat God.
This comment that you wrote if you are not a lunatic how can such words proceed out of your mind.
Anyone who does not agree with the EC should take EC to court for final verdict. We only need peace after the election in Ghana. Let us for once as a nation agree to get a credible database that can be updated for future elections.
This woman is very dangerous. Considering the fact that this virus is so deadly that all nations are shutting down and locking up towns and cities, this woman is still going ahead with voters registration idea. If you consider how national identification authority also is going with its work in eastern region, only one thing comes to mind, the npp surely have plans to rig the election. Even in America and UK, countries so sophisticated, elections are being canceled. May God forbid and this outbreak spread so fast millions are going to die because the selfish need and parochial interest of one wicked individual Jean Mensa. Why are the wise men not talking? Have they now become so fuuuulish under nana addo. They were wise when mahama was president but they are all now so ediotic under nana addo that they don't even have mouth to talk. But all of us are in it together. If chaos and anarchy breaks out they will the the first to go.
ITS QUITE STRANGE, FOR AN INSTITUTION THAT ISSUED A VOTER CARD AS FAR BACK 2012. THESE CARDS WERE USED FOR 2012 ELECTIONS, ELECTED PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENTS, SAME CARDS WERE USED FOR 2016 ELECTIONS ELECTED PRESIDENT MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. THIS CARD IS A LEGAL AND VALID DOCUMENT ISSUED BY MASS REGISTRATION AND LIMITED REGISTRATION. BANKS, DVLA, UTILITY COMPANIES ARE ALL ACCEPTING THESE CARDS AS VALID DOCUMENTS. ITS QUITE STRANGE THAT IF ANYONE USED NHIL CARD TO ACQUIRE VOTER CARD, AND THEIR NAMES WERE EXPUNGED. HOW COME EVERYONE VOTER ID CARD IS INVALID. THE MERE FACT OF ONE USED DUBIOUS DOCUMENTS TO ACQUIRE GHANA PASSPORT MAKES ALL GHANAIAN PASSPORT HOLDERS INVALID PASSPORT. HISTORICALLY EC USES PAST VOTER ID AS A DOCUMENT TO DO NEW REGISTER. WE HAVE IN THE LAW PROVISION TO CHALLENGE ELIGIBILITY OF NON GHANAIANS . SOMEONE MUST TEST THE LAW. YOU CANNOT IN ONE BREATH ALLOW BANKS, UTLITY COMPANY TO ACCEPT VOTER ID AS A LEGITIMATE CARD FOR IDENTIY AND AT THE SAME TIME DISALLOWED CITIZENS TO PRODUCED THIS DOCUMENT AS A FORM OF IDENTITY. IT IS THE DUTY OF EC TO EXPUNCED NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO DID USED NHIL TO REGISTER
In Ghana, we waste money. That's what I have grown to see. If we are accepting Ghana card as a means of registering people for the issuance of a voter ID card, why don't we simply use the Ghana card to vote rather than telling people to go and queue again in this era of COVID? Our leaders should know when to say some things. It is a bad sign of leadership on the part of EC to make this requirement public during this global crisis period.
Ndc lost identity idi*ors are shaking, thry are singing like carinary birds nani*amah shegu shegu ! Jean Mensah the Yaa Asantewaa of our time she doesnt give a fu*ck only and only Ghanaians are expected to register and vote those f00*00ls can stay home and watch! I love you baby ! Keep on dokbg the good work for your country and God. Ndc ,ndcdobt register oooooooooo toooooooooon! Nobody is forcing you to be part of this excercise the constitution doesnt force you so whats your problem ndc? Mo haw ne sen? Whether Corona Virus or not Ghanaians will register to vote ! Ndc can go to HELL! The only strength ndc has to come to social media to jnsult abd that doesnt solve any problem so keep on f000*00ling yourselves for nobody is paying you sny attention. I LOVE THIS LADY JEAN MENSAH TOO MUCH ! Whaaaaat? What a strong lady, IRON LADY ! LADY MARGARET THATCHER WOOOOOOAAAAW !She can really be the first Lady President of Ghana,she loves her job, she loves her country and God and she goes according to the Rule of Law the Constitution of Ghana#THANK YOU LADY# A PATRIOTIC DAUGHTER OF GHANA# ENEMIES OF GHANA CAN DIE !
That l0natic woman called jean mensa is suffering from convid-19 and should be quarantined for 10 years
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