{"id":702628,"date":"2019-09-10T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/ec-considers-reducing-voting-duration-by-an-hour\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:45:25","slug":"ec-considers-reducing-voting-duration-by-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/ec-considers-reducing-voting-duration-by-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Considers Reducing Voting Duration By An Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jean Mensa \u2013 EC Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) is considering reviewing the voting duration downwards ahead of the 2020 elections to improve the security of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening ceremony of an ECOWAS-UN Workshop on Tuesday, the EC Chair, Jean Mensah said: \u201cThe commission will discuss the idea of reducing the duration of the voting from 7 am to 4 pm to allow for the counting and coalition of results well before dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, polls start at 7 am and end and close at 5 pm. The casting of ballots may continue hours after the close of polls depending on the number of persons who were already waiting in the queue.<\/p>\n<p>The EC chair said the commission had observed that a lot of voters wait till the last hour to join the voting queues.<\/p>\n<p>The late resolution of voting and the casting of ballots, which poses \u201cgrave danger to the security of ballots and the safety of electoral officers\u201d is a major concern for the commission, Mrs. Mensah stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a commission, we are not only keen to ensure a peaceful and conducive voting environment but we are keen to guarantee the security of the ballot and make every vote count. In this regard, one of the issues that has occupied our mind is the duration of voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we believe that this will lead to the early declaration of results and help to reduce the tensions and suspicions that manifest during the waiting period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The workshop was on sharing experiences and global practices on the prevention and mitigation of election-related violence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Mensa \u2013 EC Chairperson The Electoral Commission (EC) is considering reviewing the voting duration downwards ahead of the 2020 elections to improve the security of the polls. At the opening ceremony of an ECOWAS-UN Workshop on Tuesday, the EC Chair, Jean Mensah said: \u201cThe commission will discuss the idea of reducing the duration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EC Considers Reducing Voting Duration By An Hour - 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\/2019\/09\/10\/ec-considers-reducing-voting-duration-by-an-hour\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"EC Considers Reducing Voting Duration By An Hour - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Jean Mensa \u2013 EC Chairperson The Electoral Commission (EC) is considering reviewing the voting duration downwards ahead of the 2020 elections to improve the security of the polls. 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