The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that there will be a total of 40,647 main polling stations, with 328 designated for special voting, for the upcoming 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
This information was contained in an October 10 statement signed by the EC’s Deputy Chairman in Charge of Operations, Samuel Tetteh.
Additionally, in a communique issued on Wednesday, October 9, the EC revealed that the printing of notices of poll and ballot papers would soon commence. However, this announcement was met with strong opposition from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), prompting a meeting with other political parties on Thursday, October 10.
During the meeting, the NDC demanded access to the ballot statistics prior to the printing process. However, the party revealed that the EC’s leadership directed them to confirm those statistics with the respective printing houses tasked with producing the ballots.
In response to the concerns, the EC issued a clarification on Friday, October 11, stating that it is the printing of the notices of poll for the presidential and parliamentary elections that is set to begin, not the ballot papers themselves.