{"id":275862,"date":"2011-02-10T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51833"},"modified":"2011-02-10T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:32:22","slug":"biometric-voters-register-for-2012-no-more-rigging-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/10\/biometric-voters-register-for-2012-no-more-rigging-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometric Voters Register For 2012: No More Rigging Of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the era of double and  multiple voting by Ghanaians are over. The voters register used for the  2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections is to be scrapped.<br \/>\nTo  be scrapped as used in the previous paragraph means that Ghana\u2019s  Electoral Commission (EC) will not use the 2008 voters register. An  advert by the EC currently running in the media states in part that the  EC \u201cintends to use biometric technology to replace the existing Voters  Register that was compiled in 2004 (emphasis ours).<br \/>\nThe heading  of the advert is \u2018Replacement of Voters Register (Using Biometirc Techno  logy). An essential part of the biometric voters register is that it is  going to be very difficult for persons to vote more than once. This  means that one avenue of rigging elections I s virtually being  eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the era of double and multiple voting by Ghanaians are over. The voters register used for the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections is to be scrapped. To be scrapped as used in the previous paragraph means that Ghana\u2019s Electoral Commission (EC) will not use the 2008 voters register. An advert by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Biometric Voters Register For 2012: No More Rigging Of Elections - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/10\/biometric-voters-register-for-2012-no-more-rigging-of-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Biometric Voters Register For 2012: No More Rigging Of Elections - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"It looks like the era of double and multiple voting by Ghanaians are over. 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