The Electoral Commission will today, Tuesday, May 7, begin the limited voter registration exercise.
The exercise is reserved for persons who have turned 18 (first-time voters) and persons who are 18 years and above but do not have voter card.
The registration exercise will end on May 27, 2024.
Addressing journalists on Monday, May 6, 2024, Chairperson of the EC, Madam Jean Mensa revealed that they expect to register 623,000 first-time voters across the country.
“The registration will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. And that gives us the figure of 623,000 that we have put there. That is not to say that we cannot go beyond that. We did mention that in 2023, we projected 700,000 people to visit our registration centres.”
According to her, the commission has arranged for all district offices to rent generators in case of power outages.
Aside from that, electoral officers will switch to an “offline” mode, where voters will be registered manually, and their details will be stored on a pen drive if the generators fail.
“We are trying hard to, we’ve made arrangements to ensure that we don’t have challenges because of dumsor. What we’ve done is to have all our district offices rent generators so that in the event where there’s dumsor, that can kick in.
“However, should there be the unexpected, we would switch on to the offline and by offline it means the voters will be registered and their details will be put on a pen drive that will be copied in our offices when the light returns, so the registration will not be disrupted.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
