The One-day Voter Registration Kicks Off Today

The Electoral Commission (EC) fulfills their press release concerning the one-day voter registration exercise, in all its district offices across the country today.

The exercise will afford eligible citizens who could not register in the just-ended exercise the opportunity to do so.

Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress filed a suit, challenging the decision of the EC to reopen the voters register for a day,but was dismissed by the Accra High Court. The court, in its ruling, said the NDC should have filed the suit on notice so that the EC could have been served.

“Eligible citizens who take advantage of this exercise will be able vote in the December 2020 general election,” a statement issued by the EC in Accra last night said.

The party also wanted the court to order the EC to comply with the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) for the intended registration exercise.

According to the NDC suit, they decided to challenge the registration exercise because the EC did not follow the law governing elections in Ghana, meaning they should have publish a 21-days notice, ahead of the planned exercise in the gazette.

In a statement, the party said it was, among other things, seeking from the court “a declaration that the Electoral Commission has acted ultra vires in its attempt to reopen and/or conduct registration of voters scheduled for Thursday, October 1, 2020 when the EC had not caused to be published in the gazette 21 days’ notice of the voters registration to the political parties and the general public.”

Most importantly,the registration is being exercised today, despite all the allegations against it,so we urge all who couldn’t register to go and partake in the exercise.