NDC meets EC over ballot paper printing concerns
Accra, Ghana - October 10, 2024 - The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is scheduled to meet with the Electoral Commission (EC) today October 10, 2024, to discuss concerns over the printing of ballot papers and notices of poll.
The EC announced plans to begin printing on Friday, October 11, but the NDC is seeking detailed statistics on the process.
According to Dr. Tanko Rashid Computer, NDC's Deputy Director of Elections and IT, the party wants to ensure transparency and prevent alleged instances of additional ballot papers being printed, as seen in past elections [as reported by Citi News]. The NDC has requested a revised provisional register and ballot statistics, which the EC has yet to provide.
"We cannot proceed with the printing of ballot papers without the necessary statistics and voter code books for each region," Dr. Computer explained to Citi News.
“The Electoral Commission indicated they were going to give us a revised provisional register. But as we speak now, they don’t have it. They haven’t given us. They have not also given us ballot statistics. Ballot statistics will emanate from the voters’ code book of the register but we don’t have that.
“How come we are going ahead to print ballot papers? On which figures are they going to use to print the ballot papers? We have written back to them, indicating our position on that, although we have a meeting with them to discuss some of the processes.
“We will send a letter to them that look, you cannot proceed with the printing of the ballot papers if we don’t have the statistics and then the voter code books of each of the regions, we will not accept that kind of thing but if they want to go ahead with the printing of the notices of polls, we have no difficulties with that,'' he added.
Source: Lead News Online
