Parliament has rejected the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) use of the Ghana Card as the sole source of identification to register people onto the voters register. The House unanimously recommended to the EC to include the guarantor system in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulation, 2023 before it could present it for consideration. Legislators were […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it will not compile a new register for the 2024 elections. Rather, the commission said it would begin an all-year-round limited registration exercise for only people who would turn 18 years and persons who had not previously registered as voters. The Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, who […]
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has finally cancelled the certificates of 17 political parties who have no regional and national presence and therefore flouted the registrations. The EC served the 17 political parties with a notice in early October and gave them up to Thursday, October 20, 2022 to show proof why their registrations should not […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) saved the country $90 million in the conduct of the 2020 Election, the Chairperson of the commission, Mrs Jean Mensa, has disclosed. That, she said, was achieved through a reduction of the cost of the election from $13 per person in 2016 to $7.7 in 2020. Moreover, it also cut down […]
Election 2020 is the first election to be fully funded by the government since democracy was restored in the country in 1992. It is one election which had no donor funding to support the election management processes, the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has disclosed. Disclosing this at the opening ceremony of […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it expects a near 100 per cent voter turnout in today’s special voting exercise. “We expect a near 100 per cent turnout and are confident that the outcome will be peaceful, credible, transparent and orderly, God being our helper,” the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, told the media […]
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has dismissed allegations made by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that some names of its members have been deleted from the newly compiled voter roll. The elections management body said the claims are false and should be ignored. A statement issued by the EC on Wednesday, September 23 said: “Our attention has been drawn […]
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has defended the compilation of a new biometric voters register (BVR), saying it is the surest way to deliver free, fair, credible and transparent elections. She said the EC’s decision was in the interest of all political parties and that it was committed to delivering […]
The Electoral Commission has confirmed that the compilation of a new voters register for Election 2020 has been slated for April this year. Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebour Quaicoe who made the announcement on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 says the Commission is hopeful the exercise will end in May. He told Accra based Starr […]
The Electoral Commission has issued 12 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and the accompanying answers with regards to plans to acquire a new biometric system and the compilation of a new voter’s register for the 2020 elections. BestNewsGH.com can confirm that the issuance of the FAQs come on the heels of the tikusayi demonstration by some […]
The Electoral Commission has indicated it is unfazed by last Saturday’s tikusayi demonstration by some opposition political parties in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale, against the compilation of a new voter’s register for the 2020 elections. The commission, BestNewsGH.com can report, issued what can be described as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) less than 24 hours […]
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that the Akufo-Addo government is committed to raising funds internally to support electoral activities across the country for the Presidential and Parliamentary polls in 2020. This he says is in line with the government’s “Ghana Beyond Aid agenda” and will mean that government will not be looking for […]
