The Electoral Commission in an attempt to ensure integrity and accuracy with regard to the collation of ballots on December 7 will deploy members of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana to each collation center.
The Chair of the Commission says this is part of the reforms to be employed in the December 7 elections.
Madam Charlotte Osei made this known on Tuesday, August 23 when she met some news editors in Accra.
Each constituency will have a collation center for the collation and declaration of parliamentary results. That constituency collation center will also get results transmitted to the National Collation Center in Accra.
Madam Osei says persons with higher education will be extensively made use of in this year’s elections.
GBA and ICAG are among the bodies that offered to help the EC in the collation of results following the landmark election petition.
Swear before magistrate
Madam Osei also said three weeks before the elections, a list of all the 29,000 polling stations will be published and made available to political parties.
“So that at least three weeks to the elections, everybody knows the final list of polling stations and what the codes are and where their locations are.”
She said not more than 850 registered voters will be at a polling station contrary to previous elections.
Polling agents as well as electoral officers, she added, will be made to swear an oath before a magistrate prior to the elections.
She also announced that the aged and pregnant women among the most vulnerable in the society will be given priority on voting day.
Source: 3news.com|Ghana
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