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Challenges in the exercise were "expected" - NPP
In an interview with Pulse.com.gh, the Acting general secretary of the NPP, Mr, John Boadu said the challenges in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise were "expected".
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The Limited Voters Registration exercise which began on Thursday, April 28 is aimed at capturing the details of Ghanaians who have turned 18 since the last election in 2012.
However, some new voters have so far been unable to register at various centers especially in the Ashanti, Eastern and Volta regions.
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At some polling centres, EC officials were having difficulties with new voters who come without proof that they are of age.
Apart from some polling centres experiencing faulty machines or shortage of voter registers, people who have lost their ID cards and want a new card is another challenge the officials in some polling stations are grappling with.
In an interview with Pulse.com.gh, the Acting general secretary of the NPP, Mr, John Boadu said the challenges were "expected".
According to him, having scaled down the number of polling centres from close to 6,000 in 2014 to 3, 500, the challenges that were encountered in the past will still be there.
"The old problem of where somebody registers and he is not put on his own polling station is also coming up. There is a polling station in Abossey Okai, Ablekuma Central where close to about 50 people who registered that had about 6 polling stations under, they were all put in one polling station. And I think that is something to be worried about. And places where the distances are huge, it is going to cost a lot of problems for voters.
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"The other thing is about where people registered and the date on the cards is yesterday, and the day before, and I think that is also worrying," he said.
Mr. Boadu also accused the government of bussing in people across neighbouring countries to come and register.
He believed that publicity about the limited voter registration exercise was "worse", and has therefore called on the EC to intensify communication about the exercise.
"They [Electoral Commission] should step up publicity. They should be able to not only do mass communication but to communicate broadcast, especially to inform voters of the movement of the machine so that people will not be moving about just in search of when the machine will come to some place or the other", the Acting General secretary of the NPP added.
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