The Electoral Commission will, from August 1, 2024, start the mop-up voter registration exercise.
The electoral body has targeted the registration of 70,000 new voters on the electoral register.
The three-day exercise is meant to give opportunity to persons who turned 18 years old after the recent limited voter registration and those who could not register previously to have their names captured in the register.
Mr. Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairman of the EC and in-charge of operations, stated in a press conference that the EC had designated its 268 district offices, 26 public universities, and 41 prison centres across the country for the exercise.
He also disclosed that the exercise would be done only online, adding that the Commission had engaged the Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) extensively to ensure stable internet connectivity during the exercise.
He added that the mop-up voter registration exercise formed part of measures to ensure an “all-inclusive voter register ahead of the 2024 general election.”
He explained that an eligible applicant must present a Ghana Card or the Ghana Passport as proof of eligibility at the designated registration centre, adding that in the absence of any of the aforementioned documents, an applicant would require two persons who were already registered voters as guarantors.
“Registered voters can only guarantee 10 persons. This means anyone who guaranteed for 10 persons in the last registration exercise does not qualify to guarantee for the other applicants in the mop-up exercise,” Mr. Tettey cautioned.
Guarantors must ensure that those they wish to guarantee are “Ghanaians who are at least 18 years old and meet the other requirements for registration, including being residents or ordinary residents of the electoral area where they wish to register as voters.”
He said political parties were permitted to send their agents to the registration centres to observe the exercise; however, he urged the parties to educate their agents to conduct themselves professionally to ensure an incident-free exercise.
“The Commission has informed the Ghana Police Service about the mop-up exercise,” he said, adding that “there would be a security presence at the various registration centres to ensure a peaceful environment.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
