The African Electoral Institute wish to bring to the notice of all registered voters that the EC will be exhibiting the provisional Voter register for the 2024 general elections per C.I 91 as amended by C.I 126 regulations 23, 24, 25, and 26 for all registered voters to verify whether their names or details are captured in the register from 20th August to 27th August 2024.
The “Provisional Voter Register Exhibition Exercise” is a critical component of the electoral process in Ghana. Its primary purposes are:
1. *Verification*: To allow voters to verify their registration details, ensuring accuracy and correctness.
2. *Correction*: To provide an opportunity for voters to correct errors or omissions in their registration details.
3 *Deletions*: To remove
deceased or ineligible
voters from the register.
4. *Validation*: To validate the voter register, ensuring it is accurate, complete, and reliable.
This exercise will help to:
– Ensure the integrity of the voter register.
– To prevent electoral fraud.
– Promote transparency and accountability.
– To enhance the credibility of the electoral process.
– Afford voters the opportunity after checking their names in the voter register to use the Biometric Verification Device to be sure everything is in order.
This will reduce the confusion, and chaos on the day of voting in December because it will afford the EC the opportunity to identifying and rectify hiccups from the exhibition exercise thereby allowing the voting process to progress smoothly on 7th December, 2024.
The African Electoral Institute is happy to note that the EC has come onboard with a short code which is * 711* 51# for people who maybe indisposed or have a busy schedule and cannot move to the Polling center to check their registration details in the voter register to do so in the comfort of their homes, offices etc by dialing the above short code.
The African Electoral Institute continues to bring to light that an election is not an event but a process and admonishes all *POLITICAL PARTIES, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES,AND THEIR AGENTS* to take keen interest and participate fully in all programs lined up by the EC, leading to the general elections on 7th December 2024 and to assist in this advocacy by reminding their supporters or followers of the importance of the voter register exhibition exercise and to urge them to check their names when the exercise commences as stated above.
African Electoral Institute has noted that since the EC commenced its programmes, apart from the NDC and the NPP, most potential independent candidates and other parties have been conspicuously absent in the electoral processes so far.
Thus, AEI is looking forward to seeing more participation from independent presidential and parliamentary candidates and all parties in good standing with the EC in this provisional voter register exercise and the remaining electoral itinerary for the 2024 general elections.
AEI wishes to remind the *ELECTORAL COMMISSION’S PERMANENT and TEMPORARY EXHIBITION OFFICERS* to uphold their oath and adhere to the exhibition regulations.
We urge them to remain faithful to their commitment to serve the Commission and the nation with integrity.
The African Electoral Institute also urges the EC to use this exhibition exercise to test run all the electoral kits to be used come 7th December 2024 including the Biometric Verification Devices (BVD) to ascertain their condition or state to avoid malfunction as witnessed during the registration exercise.
To *THE SECURITY OFFICERS,* we admonish them to be professional, proactive, and impartial in the delivery of their duties.
The African Electoral Institute also wants to use this opportunity to call on *all Political Stakeholders, Civil Society Organizations, Chiefs, Opinion Leaders, Media Stations and the Clergy* to use their pulpits, platforms or Media outlets to educate or admonish their listeners or followers to turn up in their numbers to go and verify their names to avoid confrontation or disappointment come 7th December 2024 if they are told their names cannot be found in the register.
The AEI views our democratic journey with seriousness and hope that all Ghanaians will assist in whichever way possible to sustain it as it is the surest way to the development of the country.
SIGNED:
*Deputy Director of Communications and External Relations*
*Joshua Nii Adjin-Adjin Tettey*
*(0540904550)*
*Augustus Eshun*
*Director of Communication and External Relations*
*(0244609891)*
*HEAD OF ELECTORAL SECURITY DEPARTMENT*
*Ex.W/O1 Alhaji Yussif*
*(0243311965)*
*Electoral Research Dept.*
*Seyram Mankra*
*(0244747128)*
*2nd Dep. Director of Communications and ExternalRelations*
*Emmanuel Biri*
*0538421573* *(WESTERN REGION AND CENTRAL REGION)*
*About Us:*
African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter’s rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that “elections are won at the polling stations’’ and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for a free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.
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