The Electoral Commission (EC) has said that it has re-registered 52 percent of the over-56,000 deleted National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registrants onto the electoral register.

According to final figures, 29,550 voters, representing 52% of National Health Insurance (NHI) card registrants who were deleted, re-registered at the end of the entire exercise, the Head of Communications at the EC, Eric Kofi Dzakpasu has said.

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The order followed the case in which former National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention, Abu Ramadan, and one Evans Nimako challenged the credibility of the electoral roll for the general elections.

Following the deletion, the EC gave the opportunity for the NHIS registrants to re-register.

But during phase one, which was from July 18 to 28, 2016, a total of 24,287 voters, representing 42.78% of 56,772 NHIS card holders, re-registered.

This means 27,222 NHI card registrants whose names were deleted failed to re-register, Eric Dzakpasu told the Finder Newspaper.

Voter register exhibition exercise

Mr Dzakpasu revealed that out of the 15.7 million (15, 744, 730) names on the voters’ register, 6.6 million (6,693,292) voters, representing 43%, verified their names in the exercise.

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He explained that data compiled by the EC indicates that at the end of the exhibition, 6.5 million (6,566,049) voters visited polling stations to check their names.

The exercise which began on Monday, July 18 and ended on August 7, 2016, was meant to offer prospective voters the chance to check whether their voting details on the register are correct and their fingerprint verified to avoid any inconvenience during the general elections.