The Electoral Commission will exhibit the provisional voters’ register at more than 38,000 polling stations across the country from Tuesday, August 20 to Tuesday, August 27, 2024.
The National Elections Security Taskforce on Monday afternoon held a crunch meeting with the EC to assess performance of previous electoral activities and strategise for future activities ahead of the December 7 general elections.
The Taskforce, which was reactivated by the Police Administration in December 2023, comprises heads of security agencies and some para security agencies, including the Fire Service, Prisons Service, Immigration Service, and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority.
Under the auspices of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, the Taskforce is responsible for planning and implementing strategies to enhance security before, during and after elections.
Briefing journalists before Monday’s meeting, Dr Dampare said the security taskforce was ready to ensure the peaceful conduct of the exhibition exercise.
Whiles encouraging the public to participate in exercise without any fear or panic, he urged political parties who may have issues with the register to resort to due process within the law to resolve their grievances and not violence.
“We don’t want to see any situation where anybody will make an attempt to take the law into his or her own hands. If that happens, we will work within the law to deal with the situation.” Dr Dampare said.
The voters’ register exhibition will offer voters, particularly those who registered in the just-ended mop-up registration exercise the opportunity to verify their details and identify their polling stations.
Dr Bossman Eric Asare, Deputy Chairman of the EC in-charge of Corporate Services, said voters who might not be able visit the polling stations could dial *711*51#to verify their details on their phones at a fee of 0.50 pesewas.
He said the Commission had deployed all materials for the exercise to commence smoothly and encouraged persons who registered and voted in the 2020 general elections to visit the centres to verify their details.
The EC encouraged registered voters to present their voter identification cards at the exhibition centres to facilitate the process.
The Commission however indicated that voters without their voter identification cards could visit the exhibition centres to verify their details but could not request for changes to be effected without their Voter I.D. cards.
Among the corrections that can be requested for are inclusion of omitted names; objection to names of unqualified voters on the register; removal of names of deceased voters from the register, and replacement of poor quality or damaged Voter ID Cards.
Other requests include correction to wrong spelling of names correction to wrong registration centre codes, and amendment to other registration details such as age, sex as a result of clerical error.
GNA
