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 ...

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 ...