EC clarifies relationship with Israeli firm

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April 13, 2016 12:26 AM

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has recently demanded from the Electoral Commission a full disclosure of its scope of contractual relationship with technology vendor, Superlock Technologies Ltd (STL).

The Electoral Commission has explained that Israeli firm, Superlock Technologies Limited (STL), was only contracted to manage its biometric verification machines in the run up to the 2012 elections.

This comes on the back of complaints by some sections of the public about the exact nature of work between the two bodies after the Minister of Interior, Prosper Bani, issued a statement in which he claimed the company transmitted tallied results to the EC.

According to the party, the EC needs to clarify issues in order to ensure transparency ahead of the November polls.

But, the Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission in charge of Finance and Administration, Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, has told journalists that the company, STL was never involved in the transmission of election results but with the management and maintenance of biometric voter machines.

“Transmission of results was never the work of STL and Dr. Afari Gyan, former Chairman of the Commission had always been emphatic on this fact.

“…The commission has never come out to say that what Afari Gyan put out there is not true; that is not why the commission did not speak about whatever is coming out because we have given our position and it has been made clear all this time that STL never transmitted results for the commission," she said.

“All that STL does for the EC is that they helped us buy the biometric voter registration and then the BVD’s...As I speak, they are the people working on these things, the BVR’s that they helped us procure, they are those who service it and they programme it for us to do the registration," she added.

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