The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu is asking the Electoral Commission (EC) to publish the number of people captured in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.
This according to him, will ensure transparency in the wake of the challenges that have characterized the exercise in offline registration in some areas.
Haruna Iddrisu who spoke during a tour of some centres in Tamale said the offline registration defeats the purpose of the limited voter registration exercise.
“I request that the Electoral Commission publishes nationally, the outcome of each day of registration across the country. The regulation of 2016 CI 91 provides that they provide that detail to political parties. At the end of day 1, how many persons were registered? How many were challenged? How many were done offline? How many online?”
The limited voters’ registration exercise took off on Monday and is expected to end on Sunday, July 7, 2019.
The EC was only given clearance by the Supreme Court to go ahead with the exercise on June 11 after an initial suspension.
A Ghanaian citizen Umar Ayuba, the filed application at the Supreme Court seeking to stop the EC from going ahead with the limited voter registration following the EC’s decision to hold the registration in its district offices and some selected electoral areas.
A total of 1,573 electoral areas have been designated nationwide to cater for persons who were located at hard-to-reach areas after complaints by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The commission is using a Voter Management System and Biometric Voter Registration Machines to register prospective voters.
Prior to the new regions’ referendum in 2018, the EC captured close to 50,000 voters under a registration.
Some centres recorded network challenges that stalled the process and sparked some confusion.