The Electoral Commission has announced plans of improving its service delivery during the December 7th Elections, with additional officers to make voting and collation easier.
According to the commission, every polling station across the country would have five (5) officers, which include a name’s reference officer who will crosscheck every electorate’s name well and also a verification officer among others.
‘’And for each polling station the commission would deploy five (5) officials, a presiding officer, a ballot issuer for both parliamentary and presidential, a name’s reference officer and a verification officer’’
Speaking during the launch of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) 2024 Election Day observation and post-election activities on Thursday October 17, 2024 in Accra, the Electoral Commission Deputy Chair for Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Asare announced that, this new implementation was agreed by all political parties to ensure transparency by making sure each voter is tracked and recorded.
He explained that, “For every constituency, there will be someone assisting with the collation process, and the same applies at the regional level. Under CI 127, regional collation is part of the structure for presidential elections. After results are compiled at polling stations, they will be sent to constituency collation centres, and from there, forwarded to the regional collation centres. At each regional centre, we will announce the presidential results.”