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Minority rejects EC’s new voter’s register requirement

Iddrisu stated that his team has picked information that the EC is planning to start a voter registration exercise but this time around requests only the Ghana Card

The Minority leader in Parliament Haruna Iddrisu has said his side will fiercely resist any attempt by the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register with the Ghana Card as the only recognised document for registration. 

Iddrisu stated that his team has picked information that the EC is planning to start a voter registration exercise but this time around requests only the Ghana Card.

Addressing the press in Parliament, Iddrisu said the Ghana Card cannot be a credible document for electoral registrations in the country because it includes foreign nationals and it is also yet to be acquired by a significant percentage of the citizenry. 

“Now it will interest you members of the media, that currently the National Identification Authority has registered  16,654,000 persons, printed 16,341,000 number of cards and issued 13,300,000 cards against a voter register of 17 million.

“If you use that against a voters population of 17 million then there’s a critical technical departure from the requirement. We may not even have a voter register to rely on for the conduct of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary election because the number of Ghanaians on the voter’s register far exceeds the number of Ghanaians on the national ID card data and yet the national ID card has other persons including foreigners on it,” Iddrisu added.

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