The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will exhibit the voter register once more for voters who registered during one-day voter registration on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, to verify their inclusion in the register.
Exhibitions will take place at the EC’s district offices throughout the country, the EC said in a statement that read: “Electoral Commission (EC) wishes to announce for the information of all those who took part in the One-Day Voters Registration Exercise that there will be an exhibition of the register at all the district offices of the EC.”
The EC reopened the electoral roll for one day, on October 1, after it became apparent that it had messed up voter data in the register it compiled a couple of months ago.
Tens of thousands of people reported their names and data missing when the new voters’ register was opened for exhibition last week.
The data apparently got corrupted as the EC was transferring it from its Biometric machines to the central server of the election regulator.
However, some critics are convinced that the EC’s supposed data correction is an elaborate scheme to rig the December 7 general elections for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
There is also a legal issue around the eligibility of the unfortunate voters who were forced to re-register after their data was lost of duplicated. They would need to have been officially gazetted for 60 days before they can qualify to vote. As it stands now, the EC schedule may overshoot the 60-day requirement.