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EC working with local assemblies to clean voters' register
Mr Opoku-Mensah said, the effort being made across the country, had the backing of the Constitutional Instrument (C I 91) that would govern this year’s general elections.
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The assembly members and unit committee members were tasked to support their evidence with burial certificates, funeral invitations and obituary of the deceased persons, but with deceased Muslims, a Muslim cleric could testify.
The Western Regional Director of the EC, Mr Stephen Opoku-Mensah, said the Commission has always relied on individual Ghanaians to volunteer information on deceased persons in their communities, to enable the EC to expunge them from the voters’ register, but many have failed to do so.
He said the Commission has decided to rely on the assembly and unit committee members through the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs), to support the EC to delete names of the deceased.
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“Often, people complain that the voter register is bloated but they don’t come forward to volunteer information on deceased persons, therefore, this is one way of deleting names of the deceased”.
He said the Commission, after receiving the names of the deceased persons, would also undertake due diligence before deciding to expunge them, saying the collection of the names would be done between now until the end of the voter exhibition exercise.
Source: GNA
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