Jean Mensa
The Electoral Commission (EC) has so far registered about 7,279,237 potential voters since the start of the voters registration exercise.
The exercise started on June 30, 2020.
On the day 16 of the exercise, data from the EC showed that some 3,442,954 persons were registered in all 16 regions.
About 63.8 percent of those registered on Day 16 used Ghana Card; 1.8 percent used passport and 34.4 percent through guarantors.
A total of 13,801 persons were challenged on Day 16, says the Commission.
About 420 persons were challenged in the Western Region; 512 in Western North; 1,135 in Central Region; 2,174 in Greater Accra Region; 1,359 In Volta Region; 598 in Oti Region; 2,766 in Eastern Region; 1,465 in Ashanti Region; 446 in Bono Region; 538 in Ahafo Region; 522 in Bono East; 371 in Savannah Region; 1,044 in Northern Region; 119 in North East Region; 212 in Upper East and 120 in Upper West.
Deputy Commissioner of the EC in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Asare, briefing the media on Friday, July 17, 2020, in Accra, said “As of Day 16, the Commission has registered a total of 7,279,237.”
He added that “The Greater Accra region leads with 1,524,600, followed by the Ashanti region’s 1,319,498. Four of the regions constitute almost 60%”
He said the “7,279,237 constitutes 48.5% of the 15m the Commission expects to register by the first week of August.”
“On Monday the Commission made it clear that it has ramped-up the registration with the doubling of the registration centers”, according to him.
“So in this phase the numbers registered has averaged over 600,000 per day. With still two additional days of registration, that is yesterday and today, we are likely to add at least 1,000,000 to the 7,279,237 making a total of about 8.2M.”
“This will mean by the end of today’s registration the Commission would have registered 54.7% of the projected 15M,” he added.
By Melvin Tarlue