Bloggers campaign to get new voters registered

Ghana Decides – a initiative from non-profit group Blogging Ghana, has launched its #iRegistered campaign aims to get eligible Ghanaians, including first-time voters, to go out, face the long queues and possibly the harsh weather to get their names in the Voters’ Register.

Ghana Decides seeks to promotes youth and marginalized voices towards a peaceful, credible,issues-based and inclusive elections, by using social media as well as offline community engagements, and information dissemination.

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana estimates 1.2 million Ghanaians will register in the limited voter registration exercise, the #iRegistered campaign hopes to help the EC met those numbers.

Project lead, Kinna Likimani said the “campaign focuses on getting the youth, women, persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups to register.”

She also urged Ghanaians to assist the physically challenged to get to the registrations centres and encourage women to register and share their experiences.

Using social media, Ghana Decides wants to inform voters, by getting them to follow the campaign on at #GhanaDecides, and advocates people visit their site ghanadecides.com as well as ec.gov.gh for information on how to register.

They also call for voters to post photos, videos and encourage other new voters to register using the Hashtags #iRegistered and #GhanaDecides.