The Govt Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey has expressed be concerned about the seeming deficiency of communication from the Electoral Fee, a lot less than a thirty day period to the compilation of a new voters’ register
Interacting with Gifty Andoh Appiah and Roland Walker on the AM Present on JoyNews, Dr Akwetey insisted, the Commission at this opportune time, wants to motivate its top rated officers to communicate suitable details to the public to engender self-assurance in the impending registration work out and develop believability for the programme.
In accordance to Dr. Akwetey, “in 2012, 2016, we saw leading officers… even the Chair of the Electoral Fee carrying out the conversation and not only the bureaucrats.”
His reviews abide by the piloting of a registration physical exercise to compile a new voters’ register in advance of the December polls on Tuesday, June 2.
Touching on the initiative, the Governance specialist chastised the Commission for the restricted time body assigned for the piloting.
He urged the Electoral Commission to increase the time period for its pilot registration to empower it sufficiently detect anomalies usually linked with this kind of routines.
The Electoral Fee (EC) on Tuesday, June 2, conducted the to start with of its two-day piloting physical exercise in all 16 regional capitals of Ghana.
The essence of the exercise, in accordance to the EC, is “to determine challenges related with the new voter registration procedure, as well as its result beneath numerous temperature conditions and find strategies of mitigating them.”
A assertion issued on Tuesday stated all concerns determined would be forwarded to the Commission at the national level for the required rectifications to be built prior to the commencement of the work out at the close of the month.
“All Ghanaian citizens of 18 decades and higher than and of seem mind are predicted to sign up wherever they reside when the work out commences with possibly a Ghanaian passport or Ghana card as evidence of identification or have two guarantors who have already registered as voters so they can sign up,” the statement signed by Dr. Serebour Quarcor, the Electoral Commission’s Director of Electoral Providers go through.
