The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced its plan to carefully review the Electoral Commission’s (EC) final certified voter register summary ahead of the upcoming general elections.
This summary, recently released by the EC, follows the NDC’s request for additional data beyond the main voter register provided to political parties.
Speaking with Citi News, Dr. Rashid Tanko Computer, the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT, raised concerns over apparent discrepancies, including the unexplained removal of certain polling stations.
He explained that the NDC would scrutinize the register summary to ensure these issues are appropriately addressed.
“We picked the register today with the summaries. So we are currently studying the register as a body and comparing that with their summaries. And then we also demanded their regional summaries because what they gave us was the national summary. It didn’t include the regional summaries.
“Well-intentioned, we will look at that. Their segregation of the special voters from the main register. I mean, this is an innovation they are just creating. Their statement indicated that they have collapsed some polling stations, which of course we are not aware.
He also expressed concerns over the EC’s recent separation of special voters from the main register and the consolidation of some polling stations, saying, “This is a new thing they have done. We have studied it. We will look at it. And then we think we will make our verdict clearer very soon.”