The African Electoral Institute (AEI) has urged the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) to improve on the challenges with their equipment and starting time which occurred so far with the ongoing voter registration exercise across the country.
“The Institute (AEI) observed that most of the EC’s non-functioning equipment and the late starting of the registration exercise, as observed on 7th May 2024, could cause tensions if it were an election day.
“African Electoral Institute (AEI), therefore, urges the EC to test their equipment prior to its usage and ensure that their programmes are started on time across many of their Centres,” the Civil Society Organization (CSO) indicated in statement.
Below is the full statement
PRESS RELEASE
AFRICAN ELECTORAL INSTITUTE (AEI) URGES THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION (EC) OF GHANA TO IMPROVE ON THE CHALLENGES WITH THE REGISTRATION EXERCISE
African Electoral Institute (AEI) entreats the EC to improve on the challenges with their equipment and starting time which occurred on the first day of the voter registration exercise for persons who are 18 years and above but never registered.
The Institute (AEI) observed that most of the EC’s non-functioning equipment and the late starting of the registration exercise, as observed on 7th May 2024, could cause tensions if it were an election day.
African Electoral Institute (AEI), therefore, urges the EC to test their equipment prior to its usage and ensure that their programmes are started on time across many of their Centres.
We at the African Electoral Institute (AEI) also urge the security agencies to ensure peace and order at the registration centres.
SIGNED:
(Director of Communications and External Relations)
Tel 024-460 9891
Deputy Director of Communications
Joshua Nii Adjin- Tettey
0540904550
Date: 8th May, 2024
To: All Media Houses
African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter’s rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that “elections are won at the polling stations’’ and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for a free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.
Motto: “Integrity of Choice”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
