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EC justifies non-use of existing voters ID cards

The Electoral Commission (EC) has provided the legal justification for refusing to accept the existing voters’ identification card as part of identification for the upcoming registration exercise. In a 31-paged legal arguments filed at the Supreme Court, the EC says it had the sole constitutional responsibility to compile voters register and to determine how that compilation would be effected and ...

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Thieves break into EC office

Some suspected thieves have broken into the Electoral Commission(EC) office at Kodie in the Affigya Kwabre South Constituency in the Ashanti Region and made away with some vital gadgets. The hoodlums reportedly took away two laptops that are said to contain some important information of the EC. So far, it is not known whether or not the robbery incident, which ...

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New register: Include existing voter ID card – CODEO to EC

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has in a statement impressed on the Electoral Commission (EC) to include the existing voter identity (ID) card among the documents individuals can use to establish eligibility to register in the 2020 registration exercise. Ghana will on Tuesday, June 30, start compiling a new voters’ register ahead of the country’s presidential and parliamentary ...

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NDC, other political parties petition ECOWAS over compilation of new register

Ghana’s largest opposition political party, the NDC, has teamed up with other opposition parties to petition the ECOWAS about the ongoing process to compile a new register for the December elections. The NDC and six other political parties, constituting the Inter-Party Resistance Against New Voter Register (IPRAN), say the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC), to compile the new electoral ...

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Venture Capital GH¢42m loot: Court bounces agreement

An Accra High Court has ordered the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department to reformulate the agreement between the department and the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF), Daniel Duku, in the erstwhile Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration. The court presided over by Justice Anthony Oppong, a Court of Appeal judge sitting as an additional High ...

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We must celebrate Jean Mensa for being bold to compile a new register – Maurice Ampaw

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 ...

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Over 100 university lecturers caution EC boss over new register

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 ...

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EC cites 2012 Supreme Court decision as legal basis for new voters’ register

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 ...

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New voter registration to start Tuesday, June 30?

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. ...

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