{"id":358978,"date":"2011-04-01T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/ec-urged-to-expedite-action-on-biometric-registration\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:27:35","slug":"ec-urged-to-expedite-action-on-biometric-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/ec-urged-to-expedite-action-on-biometric-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Urged To Expedite Action On Biometric Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>The Electoral Commission (EC) has been urged to expedite action on the registration and verification of the Biometric Voting process to ensure transparent and peaceful parliamentary and presidential polls in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. K. K. Sam, Western Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic<br \/>Party (NPP) made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency<br \/>in Takoradi.<\/p>\n<p>He said as a result of the numerous complaints associated with<br \/>elections in the country coupled with purported vote rigging and<br \/>manipulation, it would be appropriated if the EC put mechanisms in<br \/>place early to test the system before the voting time in December.<br \/>\u201cThis will enable the EC to detect all the errors that might crop<br \/>up in the system for early corrections so that it will not degenerate<br \/>into electoral disputes and possible unrest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sam urged the EC to draw its election budget early so that it<br \/>could seek the necessary financial support from the government and<br \/>other donor communities to forestall the irregularities that occurred<br \/>in the recent district level elections.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the EC should start public education on the<br \/>biometric registration exercise early to let the public understand the<br \/>system in order to forestall any unnecessary propaganda and<br \/>dissemination of falsehood by political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sam added that if the EC implemented the Biometric Voting<br \/>system successfully in next year\u2019s polls, it would be a feather in its<br \/>cup and serve as a shinning example to other West African countries<br \/>and Africa as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the government had released 80 million<br \/>Ghana cedis to the EC to start preparations on the biometric<br \/>registration and verification ahead of the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_93-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Electoral Commission (EC) has been urged to expedite action on the registration and verification of the Biometric Voting process to ensure transparent and peaceful parliamentary and presidential polls in 2012. 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