The flagbearer for the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Kofi Akpaloo, has called for the reprinting of the 2024 presidential ballot papers, raising concerns over the inclusion of the deceased Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) candidate, Akua Donkor.
At a press conference on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, Akpaloo argued that Donkor’s presence on the ballot could skew the election results.
He pointed out that had a new GFP flagbearer been selected to run, the Electoral Commission (EC) would have been required to reprint the ballots to reflect that change.
He stressed that reprinting the ballot papers is crucial to maintaining the integrity of the election and avoiding any confusion among voters.
“Having a ballot paper with Akua Donkor’s picture is going to create a whole lot of problems in the country. People are going to vote for Akua Donkor, of whom we are all aware that she is not alive so how are they going to do the counting? Because with the presidential polls, we do the calculations based on the percentage garnered by each candidate
“Are we going to say that those votes that were cast for her will be taken off the ballot or are they going to be counted?
“We don’t want a situation whereby a losing candidate will say he will not accept the results because of percentages, and so we are asking the EC to reprint new ballot papers without Akua Donkor’s picture on them.”