The General Secretary of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has renewed his criticism of the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) with 55 days to the December 7 general elections. This time around, ‘General Mosquito’ as he is affectionately called, has accused the EC of leading the country to ‘Mayanka’. Mayanka is a …
Read More »Ashanti Regional EC boss attacked, robbed at gunpoint
The Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr Benjamin Bannor Bio, has been attacked by armed robbers. The incident happened on the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi highway about 10:30 pm on Saturday, 10 October 2020. The EC official was on his way from the Western Region to Kumasi. Mr Bannor Bio, …
Read More »EC to exhibit voter register for beneficiaries of one-day registration on October 7
The Electoral Commission (EC) will exhibit the voter register for citizens who registered to vote during one-day voter registration on Wednesday, October 7, 2020. Exhibitions will take place at the EC’s district offices throughout the country. “Electoral Commission (EC) wishes to announce for the information of all those who took …
Read More »EC announces reopening of voters’ registration as court throws out NDC
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has announced that it will today October 1 reopen another window for persons who could not register in the earlier to register for the voters’ ID card. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) earlier sued the Electoral Commission and the Attorney General and sought to for …
Read More »NDC sues EC over mop-up registration
The opposition National Democratic Congress has sued the Electoral Commission over the scheduled mop-up registration. According to the NDC, the exercise which is planned for Thursday, October 1, 2020, will be in breach of laws governing registration exercises in the country. “Counsel for and on behalf of the plaintiff/applicant herein …
Read More »UE/R: Over 400 residents protest over their missing names in voter’s register in
Residents of Kologu-Zuo in the Kassena-Nankana District in the Upper East region on Sunday embarked on a demonstration to register their displeasure with the Electoral Commission over the just-ended voter exhibition exercise. According to the residents, some polling stations were not furnished with the provisional register. The development resulted in …
Read More »EC ends voter exhibition exercise today
The Electoral Commission (EC) is expected to end its voter exhibition exercise today, Sunday, September 27, 2020. Registered voters who have not yet verified their registration details thus have by close of today to do so. The exercise, which began on September 18 in over thirty thousand exhibition centres across …
Read More »EC has retrieved missing names detected in provisional voters’ register – Serebour Quaicoe
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it has retrieved most of the missing names that were detected in the newly compiled voters’ register during the exhibitions exercise. The Commission’s Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebour Quaicoe on Joy FM’s Newsfile show Saturday, said the Commission is left with 17,000 names more …
Read More »Only 17,000 names now missing from voter register – EC
The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Dr Serebuor Quaicoe, has revealed that only 17,000 names of voters across the country are missing on the new electoral register as of the close of Friday, September 25. The Commission had estimated that 60,000 names had been missing from …
Read More »EC official dies in okada accident
An Electoral Commission officer in the voters register exhibition exercise died from a motor/okada accident on Friday, September 25, 2020. The women identified as Sylvia was a teacher at Manso Adubia DA JHS but was temporarily working as an EC official following the coronavirus pandemic which has hit the country …
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