The Electoral Commission (EC) is to insist on Ghana Card alone as the only document for voter registration under the Constitutional Instrument (CI).
It explained that Parliament had not rejected the CI intended to achieve that but had only made proposals that were not binding on the Electoral Management Board.
“Although both sides of Parliament expressed reservations with the CI before going on recess, processes for laying the document has not been totally gone through for the Bill to be laid, and claims Parliament has rejected the CI are untenable,” the Commission noted.
Dr Serebour Quaicoe, the Director of Electoral Services at EC, said the election management body would ensure the CI was brought before the House again so as not to disenfranchise all eligible voters however, the committee expressed qualms about scrapping of the guarantor system.
He indicated that it also objected to the Commission’s move to limit continuous registration exercises to regional, district capitals and offices…
