The Electoral Commission (EC) has been urged by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to publicly apologize to Ghanaians for what they refer to as a “bloated” voter registration.
According to the NDC, errors in the voter registration could jeopardize the validity of the next elections and possibly deny many qualified voters the right to vote.
The EC took responsibility for the inflated voter registration in the Ejumako-Enyan-Esiam seat during a news conference in Accra on Monday, citing an error as the cause of the problem.
The Commission was accused by the NDC earlier of working with the ruling NPP to inflate the voter registration by more than 3,000.
During the press conference, Dr. Bossman Asare, the EC’s Deputy Chairman, clarified that the inflated figures were caused by the Commission accidentally incorporating voter transfer records from 2020 and 2023 into the current register.
The NDC’s deputy director of elections and IT, Dr. Tanko Rashid-Computer, declared that the EC could no longer be trusted and demanded an external audit during a Wednesday appearance on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.
Additionally, he restated the call for the Commission to offer Ghanaians an apology.
“We said we don’t trust their internal investigation. We are calling for an external body to audit them because this EC cannot be trusted in even handling their own data.”
“Listening to them they migrated 2020 transfers into these current transfers by bloating it…They should apologise to Ghanaians,” he stated.
