FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
DATE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2024.
AFRICAN ELECTORAL INSTITUTE (AEI) CALLS ON ELECTORAL COMMISSION ( EC) TO ADDRESS
CONCERNS ABOUT THE OMITTED STATISTICS IN THE FINAL VOTER’S REGISTER FOR THE 2024 ELECTIONS
The African Electoral Institute (AEI) deems
the Electoral Commission’s decision to release the voter register to political parties without accompanying statistics as a serious omission and has the potential for the manipulation of the voters register.
This to the African Electoral Institute is a lack of enough transparency and can create a technical loophole that can be exploited and has the potential to undermine the integrity of the electoral process.
It’s crucial that the Electoral Commission addresses this issue promptly to maintain public trust and confidence in the democratic process.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana is responsible for ensuring transparency, fairness, and integrity in the country’s electoral process.
It is, therefore, the EC’S duty to provide vital holistic information on the voter registration, such as the breakdown of the statistics in the form of:
1. Missing voters list
2. Proxy list
3. Gender statistics
4. Absentee voter list
5. National voter statistics and
6. Regional and Constituency voter statistics.
It is crucial that the Electoral Commission addresses this issue promptly to ensure the trust and confidence of the electorate.
In conclusion, the African Electoral Institute is calling on Ghana’s Electoral Commission to prioritise transparency, accountability, and fairness to prevent any attempts to manipulate the outcome of the elections by stating the statistics that should accompany the 2024 voters register and re-submit same to the political parties on time.
SIGNED
Joshua Adjin-Tettey
*Director of Communications and External Relations
0540904550
Engr. Judge Hasford Quartey
Deputy Director of Communications and External Relations.
0547510174
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African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter’s rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that “elections are won at the polling stations’’ and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for a free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.
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