We shall not tolerate anything less than a clean voter register – NDC to EC

Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) Director of Elections and IT, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to keep its word and provide political parties access to the voter register.

This comes after the EC promised during last Tuesday’s Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting that the register will be made public by today, October 8, 2024.

In light of the impending general elections in 2024, Dr. Boamah believes that transparency and justice require the publication of the voter registration.

He emphasized in a Facebook post on Tuesday that political parties would be able to validate voter data and correct any inconsistencies before to the elections provided the register is timely made available.

Inadvertent stress and mistrust in the voting process would result from missing this deadline, the NDC Elections Director said.

He urged the EC to make sure they follow through on their pledge and preserve the credibility of the election schedule.

To prevent misunderstandings and delays in the run-up to the elections on December 7, Dr. Boamah also asked the EC to enhance communication with political parties and other important stakeholders.

Read the full post from Dr Omane Boamah below:

Reminding the Electoral Commission of their Promise After the Special IPAC Meeting

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Exactly one week ago, the National Democratic Congress published our

position on the 2024 Provisional Voters Register and the EC’s IT System in a press statement.

The press statement was a sequel to the Special Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting that was held on Tuesday, 1st October 2024, to deliberate on the 2024 Provisional Voters Register at the Alisa Hotel.

Needless to state, the live coverage of that IPAC meeting followed a demand we made ahead of the meeting. Evidence:

https://www.myjoyonline.com/ec-must-allow-live-coverage…/

You may all recall that in responding to our findings, the Electoral Commission in the full glare of the cameras, Ghanaians, and the international community shamefully admitted to significant errors that relate to systemic manipulation of the 2024 register.

These errors are not mere mistakes!

For emphasis, the Commission admits to:

1. Criminal transfer of voters due to the absence of liveliness test.
2. Presence of corrupted files that the Commission suggests have been rectified and restored,
3. Erroneous addition of previous transfers to the current 2024 transfers,
4. Deleted voters who the Commission wishes to place on a Missing Voters register, and
5. A vulnerable EC IT system that is susceptible to systemic manipulation of data and infiltration from officials and non-officials who have access to login credentials.

With this background, the Functional Executive Committee of the NDC deliberated and decided to accept the EC’s promise to release to political parties, the updated version of the 2024 Provisional Voters Register for scrutiny.

We also accepted the decision to re-exhibit the register but strongly recommended that the re-exhibition exercise should be conducted both online and offline at the exhibition centres.

We further demanded a multi-stakeholder and interparty audit of the IT system of the Electoral Commission of Ghana in order to identify and address vulnerabilities that can be exploited by criminals to compromise the integrity of the December 07, 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Since then, a series of additional sensitive and intense high-profile multi-stakeholder internal and external engagements have taken place with the view to securing Ghana’s democracy.

The ball is in the court of the Electoral Commission and the Akufo-Addo Bawumia led NPP government that seeks to destroy Ghana’s democracy through dubious manipulation of the voters register and the processes leading up to the December 07 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Printing of Ballot Papers & Other Materials

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The Commission must understand that ballot statistics for printing of ballot papers are derived from a certified register and not a Provisional register.

We also expect the EC to obey the Public Procurement Act in selecting printers for the 2024 elections.

This being the case, we expect the Jean Mensah led Electoral Commission to shed itself off the tight skin and scales of the NPP in order to gain the gravitas and confidence to do right as the Constitution of Ghana expects from them.

Conclusion

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We shall not tolerate anything less than a clean voters register!

This includes an interparty multi-stakeholder audit of the EC’s vulnerable IT system (also known as the “Leaking Roof”).

We shall not tire!

We shall not falter!!

We shall not relent!!!

We shall not rest!!!!

#EAGLEEYES

#OrganiseDontAgonise

Source: Ghanatodayonline.com