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The Electoral Commission has registered 182,831 new voters after six days of the ongoing limited voter registration campaign.
The exercise, which began on September 12, 2023, is intended to register around 1,350,000 eligible Ghanaians who have turned 18 but have not yet registered with the Commission.
Speaking to media today (September 18) at the Let the Citizens Know series, Mrs. Mensa stated the objective had been changed, and the new goal was to register 52% of the target population in the current exercise.
She clarified that of the 182,831 people who had been registered, males made up 53.9% of the population while females made up 46.1%.
With 29,255 registrants, or 16% of all registrants, she stated the Ashanti Region had the greatest number of registrants overall.
Greater Accra and the Eastern regions came in second and third, with 27,264 (14.9%) and 19,327 (10.6%), respectively.
According to former president John Mahama, the bulk of those applying for voter identity cards already have the cards thanks to a system of guarantors.
John Mahama, the NDC’s 2024 contender and former president, has, however, once more urged the EC to rethink its decision to confine the existing limited voter registration exercise to district offices.
He claims that the process has been marked by difficulties that make it very difficult for prospective voters—mostly young people—to participate.
On Friday, September 15, 2023, he renewed the appeal during a tour of the Electoral Commission (EC)’s Greater Accra Headquarters, which serves as a hub for five constituencies.
The leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) claimed there was no justification for the EC to keep mistreating the registrants.
If financial restrictions were the reason for the decision, he also requested that the EC look for more funding.
“On Friday, I visited some registration centres in the Greater Accra Region, where I noticed that hundreds of young people were waiting in queues to be registered. It was clear that a significant number were registered through the guarantor system.
“If, in the future, we must use the Ghana Card as the sole identifier for registration, then the National Identification Authority must up its game not to disenfranchise millions of our citizens,” Mr. Mahama advised in tweet on Saturday 16, 2023.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
