The Electoral Commission is set to begin the limited voter registration exercise today, Tuesday, May 7, for individuals registering for the first time and those who wish to obtain a voter card.
This 21-day exercise will conclude on May 27, 2024. According to EC Chairperson Jean Mensa, the initiative aims to register around 623,000 new voters nationwide.
“The registration will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. And that gives us the figure of 623,000 that we have put there. That is not to say that we cannot go beyond that. We did mention that in 2023, we projected 700,000 people to visit our registration centres.”
Jean Mensa added that the commission has made provisions for all district offices to rent generators to handle any power outages. These generators will activate as needed to maintain uninterrupted voter registration services.
She explained that its offices will switch to an “offline” mode, where voters will be registered manually, and their details will be stored on a pen drive if the generators fail.
“We are trying hard to, we’ve made arrangements to ensure that we don’t have challenges because of dumsor. What we’ve done is to have all our district offices rent generators so that in the event where there’s dumsor, that can kick in.
“However, should there be the unexpected, we would switch on to the offline and by offline it means the voters will be registered and their details will be put on a pen drive that will be copied in our offices when the light returns, so the registration will not be disrupted.”