The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Serebour Quaicoe said, the process for declaration of both presidential and parliamentary elections results is done manually and, therefore, any disruption in internet services will not affect the 2024 general election.
The Director has therefore disregard the fears expressed by some Ghanaians with regard to the recent Internet instability across the country. Insisting that if experienced on the Election Day, it will not affect the election outcome.
He said “Our results declaration process is basically manual. The Biometric Verification Devices use SD cards with the data on them and they don’t use Internet so there is no way the 2024 elections will be affected if there are issues with Internet connectivity as being experienced now”
Dr Quaicoe further explained that after the close of polls counting of the ballots cast were done by the EC officials without any Internet connection, hence there was no way the disruption in Internet service would affect the election. Insisting that the election has nothing to do with Internet connectivity.
“The officers will physically send the results to the collation centres, and the results will be collated manually on the access sheet, which has no Internet connectivity.
The region will also do the collation just using the computer without Internet connectivity,”.
He further admonished the general public not to panic about the recent Internet disturbances because it won’t contribute in the 2024 elections.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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