The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, the mandated body to oversee all elections in Ghana, held a special meeting with all political parties on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
Also present at the IPAC meeting were some Presidential candidates, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), as well as donor partners of the Electoral Commission.
The Special meeting held by the EC was premised on the allegations leveled against the EC by the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) where they described the Provisional Voter Register (PVR) following some anomalies detected during the voter exhibition exercise conducted by the EC in August, 2024.
Below are some highlights from the Chairpersons address to political parties and other stakeholders during the Special IPAC meeting:
1. The special IPAC meeting was to provide update on the Process to clean the PVR and to receive input from the political parties.
2. All subsequent IPAC meetings will be covered by the media.
3. All identified discrepancies following the Exhibition of the PVR have been largely resolved.
4. Discrepancies initially identified cut across all regions, not just in any particular region to disenfranchise voters in a particular region.
5. The Register at this point is only provisional. It is a draft. It is not perfect and it is not final
6. The Exhibition exercise provides the legal and administrative basis for cleaning the Provisional Voters register.
7. The PVR today is different and more accurate than what was provided to the political parties in August 2024.
8. No voters were denied the right to vote in the 2020 Elections, having followed the same 4-pronged approach to cleaning the 2020 Register. The same approach is being adopted to clean the 2024 Register.
9. Production of the Final voters Register is a process, not a one-time event.
10. The Commission is set to re-exhibit the corrected PVR online via the short code *711*51#
The Commission, therefore, reassured the general public that it is committed to producing a robust, credible, and transparent register fit for the conduct of the December 7 general elections.
Source: Kobina Darlington/peacefmonline.com
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