Our Swift System Predicted Election Win by 7pm - Dr. Omane Boamah
The National Democratic Congress's (NDC) internal collation and engineering teams have revealed that they were confident of their victory in the presidential election by 7 p.m. on December 7, 2024.
According to Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the Director of Elections and IT for the NDC, the party's internal collation team had gathered data from about 20,000 polling stations across the country, with nearly all results favouring the NDC.
In an interview on Joy News, Dr, Boamah stated that their swift system allowed them to accurately predict the results by 7 p.m., with former President John Mahama securing 56.55% of the total valid votes, surpassing Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who received 41.61%.
He credited the party's "soldiers" - the polling agents, ward collation officers, and constituency and regional executives - for ensuring transparency and effective supervision at the polling stations.
According to him, the NDC's internal collation centre was designed to be robust and resilient, with a redundant system in place to prevent disruption.
Boamah emphasized that even if opposition members had attempted to disrupt their internal collation centre, it would not have affected the outcome.
‘By 7 pm I knew we had won, not that we had collated 85 % … By 7 pm we had collated about 20, 000 polling stations. But there was an analytic aspect of it where we were calculating the variance for every polling station, Mahama 2020, and 2024, Akufo-Addo was serving as a proxy for Bawumia, the subtraction of the numbers between the result on President Akufo-Addo 2020 and Bawumia 2024.
“So on the global subtraction by 7 pm, Mahama was about 18% whereas Bawumia was at -19%, so we knew that the variance was in our favour.
“So for us, who were at the centre, where the real engine was, not what was advertised as the call centre over 100 people responding … if anybody had gone to ransack the place, the person would have done nothing to our system and even at the engineering centre, because there was another centre which served as a redundancy to the whole collation process for us”.
“I wouldn’t say we had a superior system over the NPP but our system was too fast and perhaps this is what being in Government does to you. Just imagine the number of training systems that we had… maybe they were too busy with other things.
“I give the credit to our soldiers on the ground, that is the polling agents, ward collation officers, constituency and regional executives, who also supervised to ensure transparency,” he added.
Source: Lead News Online
