The Electoral Commission is considering a second round of registration for Senior High School students on campuses where there are no registration centers to complete Registration of eligible voters.
This is consequent upon the inability of the Commission to register 50% of” the students in the first round which was only two days.
Dr. Bossman Eric Asare, Deputy Chair in charge of Corporate Service at the EC said the Commission has not received any order stopping it for registering students in senior high schools.
The two-day special exercise was targeted at final year students and those in form-two gold track who were 18 or more but could not join the mainstream exercise because they were in school.
The special exercise which formed part of the nationwide compilation of a new register was announced at an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held between the EC and IPAC.
Meanwhile, The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has threatened to sue the Electoral Commission (EC) over the latter’s decision to extend the registration of voters to campuses of Senior High Schools that have not been gazetted as registration centers.
The party is asking for:
A declaration that it is illegal and wrongful for the Defendant (Electoral Commission) to conduct registration at any place including campuses of a Senior High School which was not contained in a Gazette and notification in accordance with C.I. 91.
A declaration that any such registration of voters including students that take place at any ungazetted and unpublished registration center including Senior High School campuses is null and void and of no legal effect.
An order excluding names of persons registered at those illegal centers from the register of voters.
An order for a perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant whether by itself, officers, agents, or any other functionary personnel from carrying out registration of voters in any Senior High School or place not duly gazette or published in accordance with C.I. 91 as amended.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
