{"id":179190,"date":"2024-05-07T04:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/07\/electoral-commission-begins-limited-voter-registration-exercise-today\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T04:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:16:06","slug":"electoral-commission-begins-limited-voter-registration-exercise-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/07\/electoral-commission-begins-limited-voter-registration-exercise-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission begins limited voter registration exercise today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Electoral Commission will today, Tuesday, May 7, begin the limited voter registration exercise for first-time voters and persons who wish to own a voter card.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 21-day exercise will end on May 27,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a02024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chairperson of the EC, Madam Jean Mensa, says the exercise aims at registering approximately 623,000 first-time voters across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe registration will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. And that gives us the figure of 623,000 that we have put there. That is not to say that we cannot go beyond that. We did mention that in 2023, we projected 700,000 people to visit our registration centres.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean Mensa further said the commission has arranged for all district offices to rent generators in case of power outages, these generators will kick in to ensure continuous voter registration services.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that its offices will switch to an \u201coffline\u201d mode, where voters will be registered manually, and their details will be stored on a pen drive if the generators fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying hard to, we\u2019ve made arrangements to ensure that we don\u2019t have challenges because of dumsor. 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