The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to meet with the Electoral Commission (EC) today, Thursday, October 10 regarding plans to start printing notices of poll and ballot papers on Friday, October 11.
EC announced the decision to start the printing of ballot papers and notice of poll in a statement on Wednesday, October 9.
The NDC requested detailed statistics on the printing process, citing concerns over alleged instances of additional ballot papers being printed in past elections.
Speaking in an interview with Citi News, the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT, Dr. Tanko Rashid Computer, indicated that the party will insist on receiving the necessary information before the printing begins.
“The Electoral Commission indicated they were going to give us a revised provisional register. But as we speak now, they don’t have it. They haven’t given us. They have not also given us ballot statistics. Ballot statistics will emanate from the voters’ code book of the register but we don’t have that.
“How come we are going ahead to print ballot papers? On which figures are they going to use to print the ballot papers? We have written back to them, indicating our position on that, although we have a meeting with them to discuss some of the processes.
“We will send a letter to them that look, you cannot proceed with the printing of the ballot papers if we don’t have the statistics and then the voter code books of each of the regions, we will not accept that kind of thing but if they want to go ahead with the printing of the notices of polls, we have no difficulties with that.”
Source: Citinewsroom.com
