The Electoral Commission (EC) has shot down suggestions to extend the deadline for the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.
The EC says it is “not feasible” to extend the deadline for the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.
The limited registration exercise started on May 7, 2024, and is scheduled to end on May 27, 2024.
Some individuals, including the leader of the New Force, Nana Kwame Bediako, aka Cheddar, have asked the EC to extend the deadline considering the technical challenges encountered in the first two days of the exercise.
But the EC says it is not feasible for the exercise to be extended.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, Mr. Samuel Tettey, Deputy EC Chair in Charge of Operations, said the 21-day period announced for the exercise was enough.
He argued that the large numbers that characterised the exercise on days one and two have been reduced, so it will not be feasible for them to extend the deadline.
He disclosed that mobile teams from the EC had also been deployed to hard-to-reach areas to enable applicants who may not be able to access the district registration centres to do so.
“This is good enough to cover all the difficult areas that the Commission earmarked,” he said.
“We don’t actually think that at this time it is even feasible for anyone to call for an extension,” Mr. Tettey added.
Meanwhile, as of the close of registration on the 13th day of the exercise on Sunday, May 19, 2024, a total of 522,025 new voters had been registered.
Out of the figure, 446,416 (85.52) are first-time voters between the ages of 18 and 21.
246,455, representing 47.21 percent of the registered voters, are males, and 275,570, representing 52.79 percent, are females.
The EC is expecting to register a total of 623,000 voters by the end of the exercise.
A total of 813 people living with disabilities had been registered across the country.
“The total number of challenged cases across the country stands at 7,821,” he said.
Regional breakdown
The Greater Accra region has a total of 74,420 registered voters (14.3 percent); North East, 14,147 (2.7 percent); Upper East, 20,125 (3.9 percent); Northern, 47, 948 (9.2 percent); Bono, 20,886 (4.0 percent); Bono East, 18,861 (3.6 percent); Volta, 26, 486 (5.1 percent); Upper West, 15, 652 (3.0 percent); Eastern, 48,563 (9.3 percent); Central, 56, 141 (10.8 percent); and Ahafo, 10, 861 (2.1 percent).
The other regions are Ashanti, 90,480 (17.3 percent); Western North, 16,225 (3.1 percent); Oti, 14,844 (2.8 percent); Savannah, 12,767 (2.4 percent); and Western Region, 33,609 (6.4 percent).
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
