Director of Legal Affairs for the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe says the party’s
Legal Directorate will consider exploring legal means to challenge the legality
of the Electoral Commission’s decision to hold the upcoming limited voter
registration at its district offices.
The Commission last week
announced the commencement of a limited voter registration for eligible
Ghanaians who turned 18 years after the 2020 registration exercise and other
eligible voters from September 12, 2023, to October 2, 2023.
The NDC argues that if the EC is
allowed to go by its plans, most of the new voters will be disenfranchised.
Mr. Tamakloe says his team will
challenge the legality of the exercise.
“The EC is applying the same law
to only limit the registration to the district offices. We will explore all the
available legal channels to ensure that we will get an outcome that will allow
the elections to be more decentralized. We want to ensure that all our MPs are
duly protected within the confines of our law, and we will definitely do that,”
the Director of Legal Affairs for the NDC said.
Seven political parties in the
country on August 21 were unhappy with the decision by the Electoral Commission
(EC) to restrict the upcoming voter registration exercise to its district
offices.
According to the political
parties, such a move would disenfranchise a number of Ghanaians who have
attained the voting age.
They want the commission to
instead open up the process for the exercise to be conducted at the electoral
areas.
The seven political parties have
thus promised not to rest until the EC registers every eligible Ghanaian who
has attained the voting age.
According to the Chairperson of
the EC, Jean Mensa, the exercise would be held at all the 268 district offices
of the EC across the country.
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