{"id":6601,"date":"2022-07-12T19:24:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2022-07-12T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:57:20","slug":"2024-election-ec-scheming-for-new-voter-register-with-only-ghana-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=6601","title":{"rendered":"2024 election: \u00a0EC Scheming for New Voter Register with only Ghana Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana is reportedly plotting to compile a new voter register for the 2024 elections with the Ghana Card as the only reference document.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commission is set to present a Constitutional Instrument to Parliament to replace the 2020 Voter Register and to make the Ghana Card the sole reference document and requirement for getting onto this new register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu disclosed this during an interview in Parliament on Tuesday and warned this attempt may threaten the stability of the country as it borders on the right of Ghanaian citizens to vote and to exercise their inalienable right to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, since 1993 voter registration exercises made provision for a guarantor on other persons guaranteeing for persons to get onto voter registers in so far as it is established they are Ghanaians and of sound mind to participate in the electoral process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Jean Mensa-led EC, he said, is now attempting to unceremoniously dispense with some of these processes and make the national ID the only required document even though many Ghanaians deserving to have it are still struggling to legitimately have access to the Ghana Card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat public good must be made increasingly available to every qualified candidate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon. Haruna Iddrisu argued currently the National Identification Authority (NIA) has registered 16,654,000 persons, printed 16,341,000 Ghana Cards and issued 13,300,000 as against the voter register of 17 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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