Private legal practitioner, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has asked Ghanaians to celebrate the Electoral Commissioner, Jean Mensa for her courage and boldness in exposing the irregularities on our electoral roll. Commenting on the EC’s response on the basis for excluding the voters’ ID card as a form of identification for registration he said the laws drafted by the previous EC created ...

A group calling itself the Concerned University Lecturers of Ghana has kicked against the decision of the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the upcoming elections. An Open Letter, signed by over 100 lecturers from various universities across the country said the EC boss’ entrenched position to exclude the current Voters’ ID card from the list of ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that the underlying legal reasons for its decision not to include the existing voters’ Identification Card (ID) in its upcoming registration exercise is because the Supreme Court itself has held that the register is reasonably not credible and that by implication, the cards issued pursuant to it are also reasons not credible. The EC ...

The date for the start of the compilation of the controversial new voter register could be Tuesday, June 30, 2020. A letter sighted by 3news.com and signed by Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in charge of Corporate Affairs Dr Eric Bossman Asare to some political parties puts the date for the commencement of the exercise as such. ...

The Subsidiary Legislation Committee of Parliament has by a majority decision recommended for adoption the Public Elections (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 (CI 126) brought to the House by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) through the Attorney General’s Department. Reading the Committee’s final report on the floor on Tuesday, June 9, Chairman Dominic Akuritinga Ayine admitted that a consensus was not reached ...

Parliament has voted to approve the controversial C.I 126 which gives legal backing to the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the December polls. 106 members of the Majority side of the House voted in support of the C.I while 96 opposition MPs opposed it. Despite the seeming clearance from the legislative chamber, the EC will have ...

Deputy Minister of Works and Housing in the Mahama administration, Sampson Ahi says there was nothing untoward done in the execution of the agreement of the Saglemi Housing Project. According to him, everything was ongoing as planned until the Mahama-led government lost the elections. Mr Ahi’s claims come in the wake of pronouncements by the Minister of Works and Housing, ...

Former president JJ Rawlings has entreated the Electoral Commission (EC) to embark on an extensive consultation with all stakeholders ahead of the compilation of a new voter’s register. Speaking during the 41st anniversary of the June 4 uprising in Accra on Thursday, Mr. Rawlings said: “It is equally important for that revered institution, EC, to ensure that the processes leading ...

The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said there is no need to jubilate over a Supreme Court directive to the Electoral Commission on the compilation of the Voters’ Register. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 4, 2020, ordered the EC to provide a legal basis for refusing to accept the existing Voters ID Cards as ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Thursday urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to use consultative approach that binds in stakeholders throughout the electoral process. He said the EC, the fulcrum of Ghana’s multiparty democracy, must be supported and protected by all stakeholders to ensure a free, fair and transparent election and a peaceful society. “That notwithstanding, it is equally important ...