Ghana’s electoral commission begins registration of deleted registrants

This is because they used National Health Insurance Cards (NHIC) as proof of their nationality prior to the general election of 2012.

The 10-day action is in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling early this month asking the EC to ensure that such persons were not disenfranchised but properly re-registered.

The EC is also exhibiting the voters’ register from July 18 to August 7 to offer voters an opportunity to know their polling station and to check whether their names.

The exhibition exercise was originally scheduled for last May but had to be postponed due to a court case instituted against the commission at the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the NHIC as a proof of nationality during voter registration.

The apex court in its ruling directed the electoral body to delete the names of all NHIC registrants and to provide such persons the opportunity to re-register.

The EC last week announced that it had deleted the names of 56,722 persons who registered with NHIC from the roll.

It explained that people had the opportunity to register again if they so qualified.

Ghanaians will go to the polls to elect a president and 275 Members of Parliament for a four-year term of office. Enditem

Source: Xinhua/News Ghana