Tag: EC
EC organises training for visually impaired in Kpando
The Kpando office of the Electoral Commission (EC) has organised a day's exercise to equip the visually impaired in the Municipality on voting independently....
Visually impaired voters elated for EC training for the polls
Mr Prince Akonnor, Volta Regional President, Ghana Blind Union (GBU), has commended the Electoral Commission (EC) for providing training for members on the use...
Central Tongu EC trains visually impaired voters on ‘tactile Jacket’ use
The Central Tongu District Directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC) have trained visually impaired voters in the District on the excellent use of...
Election Day COVID-19 directives to voters
The Electoral Commission (EC) in adherence to the World Health Organisation and Ghana Health Service preventive measures has designed “Strict Election Day COVID-19 Protocols...
Four Polling Assistants assign to each Polling Station
The Electoral Commission (EC) has assigned four Polling Assistants to each Polling Station to assist the Presiding Officer to process voters on Election Day.
They...
Sale of alcohol near polling stations is an offence-EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has warned that the sale of alcohol within 500 meters of any polling station is deemed as electoral offence, which...
December 7, election materials arrive in Koforidua
Election materials including ballot papers for the over two-million voters in the Eastern Region have arrived at the Regional Police Command in Koforidua, for...
Upper East Region receives 2020 election materials
The Upper East Regional directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC) has received its share of the election materials for the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary...
EC creates additional 700 polling stations in E/R
The Electoral Commission (EC) has created an additional seven-hundred polling stations in the Eastern Region, to be used for the 2020 general elections from...
EC trains visually impaired voters on proper use of ‘tactile Jacket’
The Techiman Municipal Directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC) with the support from the Municipal branch of the Ghana Blind Union (GBU), have trained...
Twenty-nine candidates to contest 11 parliamentary seats in Bono East
A total of 29 Parliamentary Candidates are contesting for the 11 parliamentary seats in the Bono East Region in the December 7, presidential and...
Vulnerable voters to be given preferential treatment – EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has tasked Presiding Officers to make the necessary arrangements to ensure that vulnerable voters – the sick, aged, pregnant women,...
EC spells-out Security Officers task for Election 2020
The Electoral Commission (EC) has outlined the task for security officers who will be on duties the Special Voting Day and December 7 for...
David Kanga: Rawlings gave EC free hand
Former Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) Mr David Adeenze Kanga, has in a tribute to late former President Jerry John Rawlings...
Engage in electoral offense and risk going to jail – Youth advised
Dr Serebour Quaicoe, the Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday said actions such as tampering with a ballot...
Support EC deliver peaceful elections – Effia Tenge
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Head, Public Affairs Unit, Accra Regional Police Command, has called on all citizens to put hand on...
UFP flagbearer’s bid to stop December 7 polls thrown out
United Front Party (UFP)’s Nana Agyenim Boateng’s bid to challenge his disqualification and also stop the conduct of the December 7 election has been...
Election 2020: Greater Accra has highest voter population
The Greater Accra Region has the highest valid voter population for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Out of the total...
EC ready to deliver Dec 7 elections
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it is ready to deliver a successful, credible, fair, orderly and peaceful elections on December 7, 2020.
Chairperson of the...
We didn’t turn down Parliament’s invitation – EC
Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), on Friday said the Commission did not turn down the invitation from Parliament.
In a...
EC chair attracts the wrath of MPs
Some Members of Parliament have expressed disappointment and anger at Mrs Jean Mensah, Chair, Electoral Commission, for her inability to appear before the house...
Twelve women, contesting in 11 constituencies in Eastern Region
Twelve women have successfully filed their nominations with the Eastern Regional Office of the Electoral Commission (EC), to contest in the upcoming parliamentary elections...
EC Boss to brief Parliament on November 5
Mrs Jean Mensah, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) will on November 5, brief Parliament on the Commission's readiness to conduct the 2020...
We don’t hate the EC – Mahama
Mr John Dramani Mahama, Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the Party does not hate the Electoral Commission (EC).
...
EC calls for qualified polling station agents on election day
The Builsa North District Directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC) in the Upper East Region has expressed concern about the competence and quality of...
Ghanaians accept EC’s authority to declare election results – CDD
A pre-election survey conducted by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) from September 28 to October 16, 2020, has revealed that Ghanaians overwhelmingly...
Ghana can’t have peaceful elections when citizens’ actions go contrary – EC
Ghana cannot have peaceful elections when citizens’ actions and inactions go contrary, Mr George Kwame Amoah, the Greater Accra Regional Director of the Electoral...
EC to receive nominations for Yapei/Kusawgu Constituency
The Electoral Commission (EC)says it will open nominations for the Yapei/Kusawgu constituency from Tuesday, October 27, and Wednesday, October 28, 2020.
In a press statement...
Proxy/Transfer exercise to end on October 23
The Electoral Commission (EC) has extended the period for transfer of votes and proxy exercise to Friday, October 23, 2020, it said in a...
Kumasi residents express mix reactions on presidential candidates
Some residents in the Kumasi Metropolis have expressed mix reactions on the number of presidential candidates approved by the Electoral Commission (EC) to contest...