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The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, Dr Serebour Quaicoe has rejected false claims by the Minority in Parliament about the Commission\u2019s proposed new voter register.<\/p>\n
According to the EC, it will not be compiling new register but only be updating the current register with voters who turn 18 using only the Ghana Card.<\/p>\n
The Minority in Parliament in a Press conference addressed by its leader, Haruna Iddrisu had said it has picked indications that the EC plans to roll out a new register with the Ghana Card as sole ID.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you used that instrument of a national ID card against a voter population of 17million then there is a critical technical departure from the requirement. We may not even have a voter register to rely on for the conduct of the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections because the number of Ghanaians on the voter register far exceeds the number of Ghanaians on the ID cards data and yet the national ID cards have other persons foreigners on it,\u201d Mr. Iddrisu said, adding that it will be resisted.<\/p>\n
However, speaking in an interview on Peace FM\u2019s morning show \u2018Kokrokoo\u2019, the Director of Electoral Services at the EC said the Minority did not read the law before passing their remarks.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they (Minority caucus) have not read the law because it doesn\u2019t state there\u2019s going to be a new register,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the EC doesn\u2019t plan to compile a new register but rather it is updating the existing one with new 18 year olds.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cIndeed the 2020 voters\u2019 register came at a cost so I don\u2019t think anyone at the Electoral Commission will say they want to discard the register. I can assure you that it is the best register ever compiled by the commission; so we have confidence in the register and we will never dispose of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe decided that instead of always changing the register why don\u2019t we go through continuous registrations and that is the new C.I in parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n
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