The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said the continuous registration of voters system already approved by the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) and accepted by the Electoral Commission (EC) must be implemented.
According to the leading opposition party, for reasons of cost and convenience, the registration should be undertaken at the district offices of the EC once a month on the last Friday of every month.
Nana Ato Dadzie, Chairman of NDC Electoral Reform Committee said at a press conference.
Other proposals from the party are; The mandatory requirement for the publication of applicants for recruitment as temporary EC staff for registration of voters and elections and for allowing the public to object to applicants who have questionable backgrounds or have overt partisan biases must be strictly complied with;
The EC should make sure that recruitment for the various categories of election officials is made as non-partisan as possible, with the available positions being advertised and non-partisan and competent persons being selected after interviews; and
The list of all polling stations to be used for an election with their names, code numbers and locations should be published in the Gazette and as supplements in the state-owned newspapers not later than 30 days to the election.
The rest are; The Regional Collation Centre should be abolished;
The voting period of 7 am to 5 pm should be maintained;
The EC should establish Election Adjudication Committees (EACs) at the national and constituency levels as administrative-dispute-resolution mechanisms for first instance grievances against decisions and actions of election officials; The EC should be required to publish details of all election results on polling stations by polling stations and constituency by constituency basis on its website and in the Gazette, and There must be a public broadcast of the Presidential vote collation process at the EC Head Office as and when the constituency Presidential results are received and certified.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
