Samuel Tettey
The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will begin a mop-up voter registration exercise starting from August 1 to 3, 2024 in all the 261 district offices of the Commission across the country.
Speaking at a press briefing yesterday in Accra, the Deputy Chair of the EC, in charge of Operations, Samuel Tettey, said apart from the district offices of the Commission, the exercise, which starts from 7am to 6pm each day, will also take place in 26 public universities and 41 prison centres.
The mop-up registration exercise to be conducted by the EC officials follows the limited registration exercise held on May 7 to 29, 2024.
According to him, exhibition of the voters’ register which would also enable registered persons to verify if their names were captured in the register will take place from August 20 to 27, 2024.
He indicated that an eligible voter must present a Ghana Card or a passport as a requirement to enable them register.
In the absence of the required document for registration, Mr. Tettey stated that applicants are required to present two already eligible voters as guarantors.
He, however, said that registered voters can only guarantee for 10 people, adding that “anyone who guaranteed for 10 persons in the last registration exercise does not qualify to guarantee for the other applicants during the mop-up exercise.”
He further mentioned that a provisional figure of 18,681,366 eligible voters have been captured in the voters’ register, and expects about 50,000 to 70,000 eligible voters to register during the mop-up registration exercise.
To ensure security during the mop-up exercise, the EC said the Police Service have been engaged to provide adequate security at the registration centres.
He also urged all stakeholders, especially the political parties and it agents, as well as registration officials, to conduct themselves professionally to ensure a smooth registration process.
Mr. Tettey added that to prevent recurrences of internet challenges that occurred during the limited registration exercise, the EC has engaged MTN Ghana for assured internet connectivity while it also resorts to the manual registration process in case of any uncertainties.
By Ebenezer K. Amponsah