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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...