Voters' Registration Exercise Begins Today Ahead of District level Elections

The Voters’ Registration Exercise in Ghana begins today, 10, September 2019 according to the Electoral Commission of Ghana.

The National exhibition, which will last for eight days is purposely to clear ‘ghost names’, that is unqualified and the dead to refine the electoral register for citizen’s to express their opinion fairly as they participate in the District Level Elections. New entries of residents who have attained 18 years will also be recorded to honor their right to carry out their franchise.

The Electoral Commission has therefore called on Ghanaians within the described category to take keen interest in the exercise, which begins today.

"Basically, the exhibition exercise is to allow for prospective voters to verify if their details, such as names, sex and age, were properly captured during the registration exercise and make requests for amendments or insertions when necessary," Dr. Asare, Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Corporate Services revealed at a press conference yesterday in Accra.

He called on prospective Voters to take their Voter Identification cards to the center for easy verification.

With about 17 million people to authenticate their details in all the 30,702 polling centers across the country, the period was deemed as limited yet the Director Electoral Services at the EC, Dr. Serebour Quaicoo said the time is enough to carry out the necessary proceedings.

“We have at most 800 people in a polling centre and so even if 100 people go to check their names in a day, they would have all gone through the process in eight days,”