Samuel Tettey, the Deputy Chairman of Operations at the Electoral Commission (EC), has emphasized that the EC of Ghana is incapable of rigging elections for any political party or candidate.
He clarified that the electoral process is transparent and inclusive, with all stakeholders, especially political parties, participating, making it challenging for the Commission to manipulate the process in favor of any party.
“The electoral process is transparent and contains all the necessary checks and participation of all stakeholders especially the political parties such that rigging an election in Ghana is impossible.”
He further emphasized that elections are won at the polling stations, not at the EC headquarters, and urged political parties to concentrate on training their agents to efficiently observe the process.
“Parties should train their agents well to observe the process and not blame the EC for outcome of the elections.”
He underscored that it’s imperative for all political parties to establish mechanisms to ensure the collation of results from all polling stations, thus obtaining the final results for both presidential and parliamentary elections.
He stated that the EC established a comprehensive process for collecting and consolidating election results from all 38,622 polling stations across Ghana.
“All political parties have their agents at each collation centre in addition to the presence of observer groups. If a political party has participated in all the processes and been able to collate results from all the 38,622 polling stations, their results should not be final results that the Electoral Commission will eventually declare?
There is no loophole in the electoral process outlined that will allow the Electoral Commission to rig the elections in favour of any party or candidate” he said.