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The Electoral Commission has made public an approved rate for personnel who have been engaged in the 2020 voters registration exercise. The development comes after a GhanaWeb publication which projected the plights of some registration officials. The personnel had expressed discontentment over the decision by the body to pay them an amount …

Some persons whose services have been engaged by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the ongoing voters registration exercise have expressed discontentment over the decision by the body to pay them an amount they describe as “woefully inadequate.” The registration officials have accused the EC of cajoling them into accepting to serve as …

Four persons are in the grips of the police for allegedly disrupting the voter registration exercise at the Steps to Christ Registration Centre in the Awutu Senya East Constituency of the Central Region. The cause of the incident is still unknown but police say the men just stormed the centre …

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has cleared the air regarding claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that its agents were prevented from monitoring the registration exercise in some two senior high schools in the Ashanti Region. The NDC had accused the EC of preventing its agents from observing the exercise at …

The Electoral Commission has reminded people who want to guarantee for applicants that they should know such people before they become their guarantors. “If it turns out that the applicant you guarantee for is not qualified, the guarantor will be held accountable including; prosecution,” Dr Bossman Eric Asare, Deputy Chair …

2 EC officials arrested Two persons are in the grips of the police in Tamale, in the Northern Region, for allegedly registering people for the voters’ ID card at a secret location. The suspects were arrested after some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) alerted the police of …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has expressed dissatisfaction in development at the registration centres and reaffirmed in a release that, serving as a guarantor for someone you are not related to is a crime, punishable by law. “Such an act is illegal in the Constitutional Instrument (CI) 91 and the …

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday began registering eligible voters in Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country but there were setbacks at some of the schools. The two-day special exercise was targeted at final year students and those in form-two gold track who were 18 or more but could …

Information reaching the news desk of My New Ghana indicates that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dragged the Electoral Commission (EC) to court over the attempt of the commission to register final year senior high school students on their campuses. The NDC is demanding the court put an injunction on the registration …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) will this morning at 10:00 am hold a press briefing to provide an update on the ongoing new voter registration exercise. The briefing, which will be the second edition of the “Let the Citizens Know” initiative, is expected to provide information to concerned stakeholders and the …