Over 15 million people to vote in this year's polls

17:59 - 26 October 2016

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"We will probably have an approximately 15,800,000 names thereabout on the register going into the elections,” Chairperson of the EC, Charlotte Osei has said.

The Electoral Commission (EC) has indicated that the final voters register which will be made available to the political parties next week will contain close to 16 million voters.

“The register has now been finalised; we have implemented all the decisions and we are in a good place and, so, they (political parties) will have the register at the end of this week. We will probably have an approximately 15,800,000 names thereabout on the register going into the elections,” Chairperson of the EC, Charlotte Osei has said.

She made this known when she addressed the second general meeting of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs in Kumasi on Wednesday, October 26.

According to the EC Chair, the list of the polling stations would also be ready by Friday, October 28, 2016.

She further indicated that the list would also be made available on the EC’s website and also be made available to security agencies to ensure a transparent election in December.

Mrs Osei added that no polling station would hold more than 850 voters in this year's polls.

The move, she believes, would ease pressure on verification and vote counting machines on the Election Day.