NDC Planning Series of DemoCurrent Voters Register Deliberately Tampered With Omane Boamah Asserts

The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has intimated that they intend undertaking "series of public fora and demonstrations" to put pressure on the Electoral Commission (EC) in a bid to ensure that the country's voters' register remains credible. 

Director of Elections for the NDC, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, says the party considers the current Voters' Register put out by the Electoral Commission to be "incurably defective".

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, August 28, he alleged that the register has "deliberately been tampered with", and thus "unfit for purpose".

He believes only a "forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voters register" can correct the register's defectiveness.

The exhibition exercise commenced on the Tuesday, August 20 and ended on Tuesday, 27th August, 2024. This exercise provided an avenue for electorates to have their names checked in the voters register in order to avoid any inconveniences during the upcoming December 7 elections.

But the former Minister for Communications in the erstwhile Mahama government claimed the exhibition exercise revealed "mountains of anomalies" uncovered as a result of "thorough scrutiny", and which "if not resolved, can jeopardize the outcome of the 2024 elections."



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Fellow Ghanaians,

Without a forensic audit or parliamentary investigation of the voters register, the register remains incurably defective.

The Electoral Commission of Ghana refused to release the voters' register to the NDC on time ahead of the exhibition exercise.

But with hard work, dedication, and patriotic zeal, the NDC across the country has proven that the register compiled by the EC is unfit for purpose.

Without a forensic audit or thorough parliamentary investigation of the EC's voters register, the register will remain incurably defective.

Forget about adjudication!!!

It's obvious the register has deliberately been tampered with!

They did not expect such thorough scrutiny that has unveiled the mountains of anomalies.

The exhibition exercise has revealed avoidable problems, which, if not resolved, can jeopardize the outcome of the 2024 elections.

Constituency by constituency (based on polling stations) reports have revealed avoidable mistakes under the following headings:

 
1. Registered voters whose names are missing.

2. Qualified voters who are placed on the Exception list or the Multiple List.

3. Disqualified people due to multiple registrations or successful obstacles who are still on the Main Provisional Voters Register (PVR).

4. People who have been transferred without their information in addition to Old Transfers that are still appearing on the register.

5. People who have been moved from one polling station to another polling station.

Let me also add the awkward process that allowed voters to apply for proxy earlier this year without their biometrics being checked ✔️

As contained in the uploaded petition, the Parliament of Ghana must investigate the Electoral Commission.

If Parliament fails, Ghanaians together with the international community, must exert enough pressure on the EC to permit forensic audit of their system, including the register.

Keep in mind that the theft of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) laptops under CCTV surveillance at the headquarters of the EC remains unresolved. Similar to the missing/stolen Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs)...

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