The Electoral Commission’s decision to host the impending limited voter registration at its district offices will be challenged legally, according to Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The Commission said last week that a restricted voter registration period would run from September 12, 2023, to October 2, 2023, for eligible Ghanaians who turned 18 after the 2020 registration period and other eligible voters.
The NDC asserts that the majority of the new voters will lose their voting rights if the EC is permitted to carry out its intentions.
According to Mr. Tamakloe, his team will question the validity of the exercise.
The same law is being applied by the EC to restrict registration to district offices alone. To guarantee that we obtain a result that will allow the elections to be more decentralized, we will investigate all of the legal avenues that are open to us. The NDC’s Director of Legal Affairs declared, “We want to make sure that all of our Parliamentarians are properly safeguarded within the bounds of our law, and we will do so without worries.”
Seven political parties in the country on August 21 were unhappy with the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to restrict the upcoming voter registration exercise to its district offices.
According to the political parties, such a move would disenfranchise a number of Ghanaians who have attained the voting age.
They want the commission to instead open up the process for the exercise to be conducted at the electoral areas.
The seven political parties have thus promised not to rest until the EC registers every eligible Ghanaian who has attained the voting age.
According to the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, the exercise would be held at all the 268 district offices of the EC across the country.
SOURCE: citinews
