The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), an independent, non-profit policy research and advocacy organisation, has advised the Electoral Commission (EC) to publish all polling station results before declaring the final results of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Kwesi Jonah, a Senior Research Fellow at IDEG, suggested this concept.
He explained that, while Ghana’s democracy is classified as the sixth most stable in Africa, the EC must implement these measures to strengthen the country’s ranking.
“We know that there are certain weaknesses, certain lapses in our democracy and some of these weaknesses relate to the electoral process.
“The European Union which since 2012, has consistently observed elections in Ghana has always come out with certain recommendations to help us to reform in order to fast track our democracy and not to backtrack it.”
“One of them has to do with the publication of polling station by polling station results officially on the websites of the Electoral Commission,” he said.
It was his opinion that this approach will prevent the political from alaieging rigging in the upcoming elections.
“There is no serious political party that can say that we don’t have the results, polling station by polling station results because our system of elections is such that at every polling station, there are two agents for the political party, one for the presidential candidate, one for the parliamentary candidate,” he added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
