The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana on Tuesday, 7th May 2024 started voter ID card registration for persons who have attained the age of 18 years recently and replacement for those who have lost their ID cards and proxy voters subsequently.
The process as commenced faces a lot of challenges at the various registration centers and some selected electoral areas within the districts across Ghana.
A press release by the African Electoral Institute (AEI) entreats the EC to improve on the challenges with their equipment and starting time which occurred on the first day of the voter registration exercise for persons who are 18 years and above but never registered.
The Institute observed that most of the EC’s non-functioning equipment and the late starting of the registration exercise, as observed on 7th May 2024, could cause tensions if it were an election day.
The African Electoral Institute, therefore, urges the EC to test their equipment before its usage and ensure that their programmes are started on time across many of their Centres.
“We at the African Electoral Institute (AEI) also urge the security agencies to ensure peace and order at the registration centres”. Part of the press release stated.
The press release dated 8th May 2024 is signed by AIE’s Director of Communication and External Relations and the Deputy Director of Communications,
Joshua Nii Adjin- Tettey
The African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders’ capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that “elections are won at the polling stations’’ and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.
