{"id":180250,"date":"2024-05-09T07:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T07:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/09\/limited-voter-registration-ec-must-consider-extending-deadline\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T07:11:59","slug":"limited-voter-registration-ec-must-consider-extending-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/09\/limited-voter-registration-ec-must-consider-extending-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited voter registration: EC must consider extending deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to consider extending the days for the limited voter registration exercise after some disruptions and challenges were recorded on day one of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, who toured some registration centres in Accra, said the EC must ensure it makes time to fill in the lost hours or days of inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, if there were places as I hear, where not even a single person was registered or where very few people were registered because of challenges with the machines, then definitely the EC must make up for that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is an extra day, it should be restored. Whatever it is, if it is a couple of hours, it should be extended to the following day just so that everybody registers. 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