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Voter education project on rejected ballots launched

The idea for the project was conceived as a result of disagreements over whether or not ballot papers should be rejected for not being properly thumb-printed.

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The project dubbed: 'Strengthening Community-led Initiatives for Peaceful and Credible Elections' (SCOPE) is being implemented in 78 selected polling stations in Tamale Metropolis, West Mamprusi, Tolon and Central Gonja Districts of the Northern Region.

SCOPE is supported by STAR Ghana, a multi-donor pooled funding agency, and members of the CSOs Platform on Good Governance.

The implementing CSOs include NORSAAC as lead implementing CSO, and Ghana Developing Communities Association, Institute of Local Government Studies, Tamale, and Northern Region office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE).

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Head of Programme and Policy of NORSAAC, Hafsatu Sey Sumani, who spoke at an inception meeting on the project in Tamale said the project would also help to reduce violence that characterised elections at the selected polling stations.

The idea of the project was conceived as a result of disagreements over whether or not ballot papers should be rejected for not being properly thumb-printed.

The meeting was attended by members with the objective to strategise for effective implementation of the project from April to December.

Madam Sumani said community facilitators in the implementing districts would be trained to undertake targeted voter education while inter-households mock thumb printing clinics would be held before the elections to ensure that people know how to vote well to reduce the incidence of rejected ballots.

Northern Regional Director of NCCE, Alhaji Abdul Razak Saani, said the high number of rejected ballots recorded during elections in the country could make changes to the results in some constituencies hence the need to educate voters to vote well.

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Alhaji Saani said the project would ensure quality, freeness and fairness of the polls as it would improve the elections, reduce tension and violence making people to accept the results.

Source: GNA

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