NDC is unhappy with EC for not following its timetable

The National Democratic Congress is unhappy with the neglect of the Electoral Commission for not abiding by its timetable, a matter the NDC referred to as a dangerous path. According to the NDC, the EC has deliberately decided not to communicate the continuous registration slated for the 16th of February 2023. "Everyone who has attained the age of 18 must know and appear at their various district offices to have their names on the voters register", a statement from the NDC indicates. Below are the EC's own timetable ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES FOR 2023 DISTRICT LEVEL ELECTIONS REGISTRATION OF VOTERS S/N PERIOD NO. OF DAYS ACTIVITY 1 10/01-10/03/2023 60 Procurement of Educational, Registration, Exhibition, and Election Materials 2 10/01-10/03/2023 60 Distribution of Registration Materials 3 10/01/2023 1 IPAC Meeting on Continuous Registration 4 10/01/2023 1 Press release on Continuous Registration 5 10/01-30/01/2023 14 Preparation and Distribution of BVR Kits 6 12/01-13/01/2023 2 RIPAC & DIPAC 7 24/01-30/01/2023 7 Testing of the VMS in the Districts 8 31/01/2023 1 IPAC Meeting on Continuous Registration 9 31/01/2023 1 Press release on Continuous Registration 10 02/02-03/02/2023 2 RIPAC & DIPAC on Continuous Registration 11 06/02-07/02/2023 2 KIT 12 09/02-10/02/2023 2 T.O.T 13 09/02-06/03/2023 26 Publicity on Continuous Registration 14 09/02-06/03/2023 26 Media Engagement on Continuous Registration 15 12/02-14/02/2023 3 Briefing of District Staff(Technical & Procedure) 16 16/02/2023 Continuous Registration of Voters 17 30/04/2023 1 Briefing & Swearing in of DRRC members 18 01/04-14/04/2023 14 Sitting of DRRC, challenges & adjudications 19 14/04-28/04/2023 15 Deduplication and adjudication EXHIBITION OF THE VOTER REGISTER 20 11/04-30/04/2023 20 Distribution of Exhibition materials 21 17/04-23/04/2023 7 Recruitment of Exhibition Supervisors and Officials 22 24/04-26/04/2023 3 Keying in of Exhibition Officials data 23 25/04-26/04/2023 2 KIT 24 28/04/2023 1 Data freeze 25 28/04-02/05/2023 5 Data processing and Splitting of Polling Stations 26 28/04-02/05/2023 5 Printing and Distribution of Training Registers 27 28/04-25/05/2023 28 Printing & Distribution of Provisional Registers 28 02/05/2023 1 IPAC Meeting 29 02/05/2023 1 Press release on Exhibition of the Voters register 30 04/05-05/05/2023 2 RIPAC and DIPAC 31 08/05-09/05/2023 2 T.O.T. on Exhibition Procedures 32 12/05-19/05/2023 8 Grassroots training for Exhibition Officials 33 15/05-26/05/2023 12 Publicity on exhibition and posting of Educational Posters 34 15/05-29/05/2023 15 Media Engagement 35 02/06-10/06/2023 8 Exhibition of the Voters Register 36 07/06/2023 1 Appointment and briefing of Revising Officers 37 08/06-22/06/2023 15 Adjudication, Keying in of corrections and inclusions 38 19/06-23/06/2023 5 Authentication of Voters Register DISTRICT LEVEL ELECTIONS 39 09/06-14/06/2023 5 Stakeholder Engagements (Women, CSOs, PWDs) – National, Regional & District levels 40 12/06-17/06/2023 6 Distribution & Posting of Notices, Nomination Forms, Transfer and Proxy forms 41 12/06-16/06/2023 5 Interview & appointment of Returning officers and Deputy Returning Officers 42 20/06/2023 1 Press Release on Elections, Nomination of Candidates, Recruitment of Election Officials, transfers and proxies 43 26/06/2023 1 Issuance of Writ 44 26/06/2023 1 Gazette publication of Writ of Election 45 17/05-21/05/2023 5 Transfer of Votes for Candidates 46 26/06/2023 1 Press release on Nomination of Candidates 47 29/06/2023 1 Briefing on Receipt of Nomination 48 03/07/-07/07/2023 2 Receipt of Nomination-District Assembly Election 49 03/07/-07/07/2023 2 Receipt of Nomination-Unit Committee Election 50 10/07-14/07/2023 5 Processing and submission of Nomination forms to Head Office 51 13/07-17/07/2023 5 Posting of Notice of Nominations 52 13/07-10/09/2023 60 Distribution of other election materials 53 16/07-19/09/2023 60 Processing, Printing, and Distribution of Notice of Poll and Ballot Papers. 54 03/08/2023 1 Press release on IPAC Meeting 55 04/08-02/10/2023 60 Publicity on DLE 56 08/08-17/08/2023 10 Recruitment and keying in details of election officials in the VMS 57 10/08/-21/08/2023 11 Transfer of Votes / Proxies 58 14/08-18/08/2023 5 Dialogue with Candidates at District Levels 59 19/08-28/08/2023 10 Printing and Distribution of Training Registers. 60 18/08-22/08/2023 5 KTT for Top Trainers 61 23/08-24/08/2023 2 KIT 62 23/08/2023 1 Final Data Freeze 63 29/08-08/09/2023 11 TOT - Procedure & Technical 64 23/08-21/09/2023 30 Data Processing, Splitting of Polling Stations, Generation of Barcodes & Extraction of Data for BVD 65 29/08-27/09/2023 30 Preparation and Distribution of BVDs for Training and Election 66 31/08-20/09/2023 21 Printing and Distribution of Final Voters Register 67 01/09-30/09/2023 30 Media Engagement 68 10/09-15/09/2023 6 Posting of Notice of Poll 69 12/09-30/09/2023 19 Grassroots training – Procedure & Technical 70 12/09-16/09/2023 5 Servicing of Public Address System 71 13/09/2023 1 Press Release on the Platform Mounting 72 14/09/2023 1 Briefing of Platform Monitors 73 17/09-30/09/2023 14 Platform Mounting 74 19/09/2023 1 National Meeting to assess Final Preparation on Elections 75 21/09/2023 1 Press Release on Elections 76 03/10/2023 1 Election Day 77 04/10-08/10/1023 5 Submission of DLE Results to the Regions & Head Office 78 9/10-11/10/2023 3 Submission of Writ of Election to the District Assembly 79 18/10/2023 1 Breaking of Ties for DLE 80 25/10-26/10/2023 2 Gazette Publication of DLE Results NB. Some of the dates will be subject to change depending on the exigencies of the time.