Ghana’s electoral management body, the Electoral Commission (EC) says it has released the 2024 election’s provisional voter register to political parties ahead of the voter register exhibition scheduled to begin on Tuesday, August 20 to 27, 2024.
Addressing journalists at a press conference held at the EC headquarters on Monday, 19, 2024, the Deputy Electoral Commissioner, Dr Bossman Asare, emphasized that the commission is still within its scheduled timeframe for delivering the provisional register to political parties.
“We have heard in sections of the media that the commission has not given the provisional voter register to the political parties after informing the parties to bring their external drives. We want to place on record that per Regulation 22 of CI 31 as amended by CI 126, the commission is required to give the provisional register to the political parties not later than three months from the end of the registration period.
As you may be aware, the limited registration ended on May 29, 2024, and the mop-up registration ended on August 3, 2023.
On the basis of the limited registration, the commission has until the end of August 2024 to give the provisional register to the various political parties.
We wish to state that the external drives containing the provisional voters register are available for pickup. However, we can say from the records that the NDC has collected its external drive. The other parties have also collected,” he stated.
Dr Asare also confirmed that the voter register exhibition exercise will commence on Tuesday, August 20 and end on the 27th August 2024.
By Franklin ASARE-DONKOH