A political activist and physician, Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy, has raised concerns over discrepancies in the 2024 voter’s register, claiming that the current register is bloated.
According to him, the number of registered voters appears uneven when compared to the overall population.
“I can tell you that the register is bloated because if you look at the population and the percentage of the population that is registered, it looks as if our register is too large.
“It comes from some of the procedural errors that when they are doing these registers, you need to apply biometric measures live or dynamically as you are doing it, so you don’t take a laptop that is unconnected with the biometric data, go and do it, and come and dump it,” he said.
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In addition, Dr. Kennedy urged the EC to allow an independent body to audit the register, which he said would enhance the credibility of the upcoming general elections.
“In fairness to the EC, it has an interest in protecting its work. It is like you are a student who has taken an exam, and you say I want my script remarked. The same teacher who marked the script you have a problem with says I will remark it for you. Ideally, a different person should mark the script.”
“I think it is in the interest of everybody to have independent people look at this so we can all have the results,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission has assured the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and other relevant stakeholders of its commitment to producing a credible and robust voter’s register.
Responding after receiving a petition submitted by leadership of the NDC after its ‘Enough is Enough’ protest on Tuesday, September 17, the Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations at the EC, Samuel Tettey, emphasised in a signed statement that processes towards producing a final voter’s register are still in their early stages.
According to the EC, it is “mindful that the voter register is the bedrock of credible, fair, and transparent elections” and therefore remains committed to producing a robust voter register ahead of the December 7 polls.
The NDC staged a nationwide protest against the EC on Tuesday, demanding that a forensic audit be conducted on the voter register over some discrepancies the leadership of the party says were uncovered when it took delivery of the provisional voter register.