The Electoral Commission (EC) has set April 18, 2020, as the date for the compilation of the new voters’ register.
This was announced by the Deputy Chairperson of the EC in-charge of Operations, Samuel Tettey.
The exercise is expected to be completed by May 30, 2020 after which an exhibition exercise will be conducted from August 15-28, 2020.
According to the Daily Graphic, the EC plans to deploy 8,000 registration devices for the exercise which will be rolled out at 32,000 polling centres nationwide.
The EC, according to the state newspaper, also intends to adopt a system where four polling stations will be merged to form a cluster to ease the process.
Providing more details on the exercise, the EC says it will use a period of 43 days for registration by spending 10 days at a cluster plus a five-day mop-up.
New additions
According to the electoral body, persons who will be registering for the first time will have their residential address, parents name and other essential biodata captured.
Additionally, Ghanaians who wish to have their personal information updated in the electoral roll will have to provide proof to make such changes.
The EC is hopeful that, the registration will be conducted in a fast mode because it is just adding the fingerprints and facials of persons who have already registered as all other existing data with the Commission remain intact.
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