Rationale for exhibiting the provisional voters register is to correct errors and omissions – EC tells NDC

The Electoral Commission (EC) has told the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the purpose of exhibiting the provisional voters register was to make corrections.

It is only after the corrections are made that the final register will be printed out for the elections, the Commission said.

This has been the practice since 1992, it added.

“The rationale for exhibiting the provisional voters register is to correct errors and omissions. It’s only after all identified issues are corrected that the final register is printed for the elections. This has been the practice since 1992,” the commission posted on its X platform.

This was after the NDC called for a forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voter register.

Director of Elections and IT for the main opposition party, Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 said that without a forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voters register, the register remains incurably defective.

“The Electoral Commission of Ghana refused to release the voters’ register to the NDC on time ahead of the exhibition exercise,” it said.

The Electoral Commission began the exhibition of voters’ register last week for electorates to crosscheck their details if there were any corrections that needed to be made.

But the full register was made available to the parties a day to the exercise, aside from the daily updates that were supplied to them during the voter registration exercise and the mop up that followed.

Source: 3news.com