PRESS RELEASE
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
DATE: 15TH OCTOBER, 2024.
INDIVIDUALS SHOULD HELP THEIR HOUSEHOLDS; AND POLITICAL PARTIES SHOULD HELP THEIR SUPPORTERS TO CHECK THEIR NAMES ON THE ONLINE VOTERS REGISTER EXHIBITION BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION (EC)
The African Electoral Institute (AEI) is appealing to individuals to help members of their households and others in their communities to check for their names in the online Voters’ Register exhibition which starts from 15th October 2024 to 19th October 2024.
African Electoral Institute also suggests to political parties to endeavour to mobilize mobile teams or semi-polling stations to strategically help their supporters and voters in general to check their names in the online voter register exhibition exercise.
AEI further wishes to reiterate the procedure needed to check one’s name on the Voter’s Register online. To check your details, you have to:
- DIAL *71151#*.
ENTER YOUR 10 DIGIT VOTER ID NUMBER. Or; - USE THIS LINK https://ec.gov.gh/ to check your voter details where your picture and details will pop up.
- follow the steps
- After checking, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS LOCATED AT THE EXACT POLLING STATION YOU HAVE REGISTERED OR TRANSFERED YOUR VOTE TO.
- If there are any discrepancies in your details, please report to the District Office of the Electoral Commission where one is a registered voter. Otherwise, after 19th October, one will be able to check online; but cannot request for corrections on any detail identified.
OUR RESERVATIONS
Irrespective of the above recommendations for the public to go through the online exhibition exercise, the African Electoral Institute still maintains that this re-exhibition should have been both online and in-person because having only an online exhibition will exclude the marginalized and rural communities as we indicated in our earlier statement dated 27th September 2024.
Also, the online Voter’s Register exhibition is likely to mete out some hardship on individuals who may find discrepancies with their details and have to travel to their district electoral offices.
In conclusion, the African Electoral Institute believes that democracy should not be tedious and wearisome to the electorates.
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SIGNED
Joshua Adjin-Tettey
Director of Communications and External Relations
0540904550
Ex. WO Alhaji Yussif Mahamah
Electoral Security Department
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Engr. Judge Hasford Quartey
Deputy Director of Communications and External Relations.
0547510174
About Us:
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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