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EC to allow TV cameras in collation centre

Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh

The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson Mrs Charlotte Osei said this development was to ensure there is more transparency during this year's election.

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She was speaking at an editor’s forum in Accra. She explained that this move was to ensure a transparent election.

“For the first time at the National Collation Centre, we will allow the TV cameras in, so that everyone will see the process as the results come in from the collation centres.”

“So, as the results come and as we put them together, the whole country will have the privilege of walking with us along that chain, so, this makes it very difficult for anyone to play mischief, for anyone to amend the results. Because everyone and all the parties’ candidates and their party agents will have the result," she said.

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In times past a number of representatives from each contesting political party were at the collation centre and relayed the results to their various parties before the EC made the formal declaration. No cameras were allowed at the centre.

This has sometimes led to false predictions in the public and media space.

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She finally reiterated her stance that it is practically impossible for her to cheat for any political party contesting in the elections in December.

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“It is really impossible for the chair of the Electoral Commission, working with all the other commissioners, to change any of the results because we really lack the ability to be at the 29,000 polling stations and the 275 constituencies, and we also lack the ability to grab the results that are being held by the candidates and their party agents and amend all that”.

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Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh A feminist at heart and a lover of art. She loves to write on business, politics and health.

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