The leadership of the NDC has rescinded its decision to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from going ahead with the voter registration exercise. Having earlier filed a suit to challenge the electoral body’s decision to conduct the exercise at the Supreme Court, the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, aborted parts of the suit on Thursday morning. The NDC’s suit at ...

Convener for political pressure group, LMVCA, David Asante has disclosed that his outfit has obtained evidence to prove that the Electoral Commission is aware that there are persons using fake voters ID cards in the country. “We are in possession of documents that prove the Electoral Commission has written a lot of letters to several institutions, notifying them that voter ID cards that were ...

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice has found the Electoral Commission chairperson, Jean Mensa guilty of failing to declare her assets when she assumed office as required by law. The Alliance for Social Equity and Accountability (ASEPA) petitioned the Commission to investigate Jean Mensa for not disclosing her assets in accordance with Article 286 of the Constitution. CHRAJ’s ...

The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), MrSamuel Ofosu-Ampofo has charged members of the party to reject the call to participate in the Electoral Commission’s (EC) mass voters registration exercise scheduled to begin on June 30, 2020. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the party was against the compilation of the new voters’ register because the atmosphere in the country was not ...

The decision by the Electoral Commission of Ghana to compile a new voter roll ahead of the December General Elections has met varied forms of opposition, the Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of policy think tank group IMANI Africa is one of such persons who does not side with the commission on its venture. Taking to Twitter, Mr Cudjoe ...

Parliament by a majority decision, 106 – 92 has approved the recommendation of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee to adopt its report on the Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126). The C.I. 126 makes the Ghana Card and the Ghanaian passport the only legal identification documents for registering people in the new biometric voters’ register. Some Ghanaians have, however, accused the Electoral Commission ...

Elections are continuous processes that involve a complex interplay of activities that are technical in nature but carry deep political and legal implications. The quality of an election management body’s (EMB) preparation for an election is crucial to the overall success of the process. Ghana goes to the polls on December 7, 2020, to elect a president and 275 lawmakers. ...

A lecturer of the Koforidua Technical University (KTU), Dr Benjamin Kwofie, has written to the Vice Chancellor to deny knowledge of a letter written by some 101 lecturers to the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), asking her to tread cautiously in the decision to compile a new register for the December 7 elections. According to Dr Kwofie, he ...

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has given an assurance that an NDC government will make it natural for the Electoral Commission (EC) to register all qualified Ghana citizens and issue them with Voter Id cards. This, he said, would be done within the 100 days of coming into power. According to him, the NDC intends to do that by deploying acceptable ...

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 ...