After Spending Millions On A New Register, EC Inaugurates 16-member C’ttee To Clean New Voter Register

The Electoral Commission (EC) has inaugurated a voter registration adjudication committee to help expunge the names of multiple registrants from the voter register.

The 16-member multi-stakeholder committee which was inaugurated by the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, in Accra Wednesday [August 5, 2020], will be required to manually determine the eligibility of persons who have been flagged for multiple registration through the de-duplication process to be on the voter roll.

Chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Operations, Mr Samuel Tettey, the committee has six other officials of the EC; five representatives of political parties and four civil society organisations (CSOs) as its members.

Political parties with representation on the committee are the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention People’s Party (CPP), the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG).

Throwing more light on the work of the committee, Mrs Mensa said the committee members would be presented with a number of cases that were flagged at the de-duplication stage of the multi-faceted mechanism to clean up the voters register.

She explained that the committee would deal with cases that concern persons who have different facial features but have some of their biometric features (fingerprints) matching other people’s.

“It will also determine the eligibility of persons who have same facial features and same fingerprints matching,” she said.

The mass voter registration exercise which started on June 31, will end Thursday [August 6, 2020], but the EC Chairperson said per its data, it was expecting that 16.5 million people would have registered by the end of the exercise.

The figure is 1. 5 million more than the projected 15 million eligible Ghanaians.

Mrs Mensa said the current figures were provisional and could go down subject to the outcome of the challenge system and the adjudication process.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com