The Electoral Commission has said registration for Voter Identify Card and Compilation of Register will be conducted across six thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight clusters simultaneously from Tuesday, 30th June, and completed on August 6, 2020.
A total of 6788 clusters, made up of 5 polling stations each will be covered and 33, 367 registration centers will be covered during the exercise.
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, disclosed this at a press briefing on Monday.
She said the exercise will be carried simultaneously in all 16 regions across the country.
The entire registration will be done in 5 phases. Each phase will span 6 days. A registration team will spend 6 days each of the 5 centers of the cluster, that’s 30 days for each cluster. An additional 6 days for the mopping up exercise.
According to Madam Jean Mensa, Each applicant should not spend more than 10 minutes to go through the registration process, and Over 5,000 technicians deployed to the field and zonal centers set up across the country to detect faulty kits.
Other important issues include;
All registration centers will be set up outdoors in open spaces. Where schools, churches, and other centers are being used as registration centers, centers will be set up in open spaces outside the facilities. All furniture will strictly be provided by the Electoral Commission’s as has been the policy from times past. Furniture will continually be wiped with alcohol wipes.
All People queuing to enter the registration center will be required to wear a nose mask. The temperature will be checked, social distancing will be enforced, and mandatory washing of hands observed. Hand sanitizers will also be provided.
Some 7000 health assistants released by the Ghana Health Service to each of the centers nationwide to assist in the strict adherence of safety protocols outlined by the EC.
Special arrangements have been made for the elderly and the vulnerable in the registration exercise. All vulnerable persons such as persons with disabilities, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers, the aged who are 60 years and above, as well as the sick, will be given priority at all registration centers.
The aged and vulnerable may go to the district offices of the EC across the country for their registration. They have the option of filling out and printing their forms before they go to the registration centers, to help speed up the registration processes.
Registration for the aged and vulnerable starts from Thursday, July 2, 2020
44,000 staff recruited, trained, and deployed into the field.
8,000 biometric voter registration kits deployed into the field, thoroughly tested.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
