Per the directives by the Electoral Commission, the Limited Voters Registration began on Tuesday, September 12, 2023.
Valential Tetteh reports from the Greater Accra Region that, for some, the registration is going well, but the challenge at hand is how to transport constituents from their various locations to the registration centre.
Some students had to skip lessons to join the queue for their registration.
All five constituencies, namely: Ayawaso Central, Ayawaso East, Ayawaso West, Ayawaso North, and Korle Klottey Constituencies, are at the Electoral Commission office.
They pleaded with the EC to relocate the registration exercise to the various Constituencies to ease the congestion at the EC office.
Regional Reports on Limited Voter Registration
From Bono East, Correspondent Samuel Ayammah reports that the exercise took place in all eleven district offices in the Bono East Region with minimal hitches.
In the Central Region, Correspondent Kinsley Nana Boadu says the Cape Coast Metropolitan was overcrowded during his visit.
He said the EC officials were ”overwhelmed with the turnout”.
Hundreds of prospective voters who turned up to register on the first day of the ongoing Limited Registration exercise were left frustrated following the malfunctioning of equipment and poor Internet connectivity, reports Correspondent Murtala Issah from Tamale in the Northern Region.
Akosua Frema Frimpong reports from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region that first-time applicants turned up at the premises of the Ashanti Regional Office of the Electoral Commission in Kumasi on the first day of the Limited Voter Registration.
A visit to the venue in the afternoon by our news team saw a number of applicants who had defied a downpour and were waiting in a queue for their turn to go through the process.
The news team was informed that the exercise began at exactly 8 a.m. at all five centres on the premise of the Ashanti Regional Office of the EC.
These are Subin, Old Tafo, Manhyia North, Manhyia South, and Bantama Registration centres.
The news team witnessed a little misunderstanding between some party agents present at the centres about alleged minors who were in the queue to take part in the exercise.
Calm was, however, restored by Officials of the EC. One of the centres had registered 50 new applicants and issued them with their cards at the time our news team visited, with another centre registering 20 new applicants.
The Regional Director of the EC, Benjamin Bano-Bioh, advised the party agents to use the appropriate process to challenge new entrants. He also warned minors not to attempt to register.
A first-time applicant called Fati Moro, who had been issued with the voter ID card, lauded the process.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has directed its officers to register new voters offline if they encounter difficulty with the online registration system in the ongoing Limited Voter Registration.
This followed reports of network connectivity challenges related to the online registration system, which delayed the registration process in some centres on Tuesday morning.
The EC had explained that the online registration system would make it possible to immediately detect double registration at the point of registration.
Dr Serebour Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services at the EC, told the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday, September 12, that there were “initial hitches” with the system on the first day.
He said the situation would normalise as the exercise progressed.
“We have asked them (officers) to switch offline if they encounter challenges.
All those registered offline, the system will review their identities, and if their names appear on the multiple list they will not vote,” Dr Quaicoe said.
