The Ghana Electoral Commission (EC) has said one way of addressing the issue of voter register of minors and foreigners is to use Ghana cards.
According to the Director of Electoral Services Dr. Serebour Quaicoe despite the opposition’s stance on the said issue, the EC is convinced the use of Ghana Cards will drastically reduce the number of minors and foreigners on the current voters register.
The Director of Electoral Services at the EC made the pronouncement during a roundtable discussion with the Department of Political Science of the College of Humanities of the University of Ghana, Legon.
Dr. Quaicoe said, the issues of impersonation, multiple registration, and multiple voting are worrying development they are very interested in resolving.
“The Electoral Commission thinks that one way of addressing the issue is to use the Ghana Card,” he stressed.
“There have been a lot of arguments and we are still battling it out and we are still insistent that let us use the Ghana Card so that it will address the issue of minors – because your date of birth is on the Card – and the citizenship, which is also on the Card,” he noted. “That is also a way to reduce drastically the registration of minors and foreigners.”
The discussion was on the theme: ‘Electronic Technology and the Future of Election in Ghana’.
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