NDC To Sue Electoral Commission
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is opposed to the Electoral Commission’s plan to hold limited voter registration in its district offices.
According to Godwin Edudzi Tamekloe, a member of the legal team of the NDC, the party has chosen to investigate potential legal possibilities to challenge the Commission on this matter if necessary.
The EC has established a special registration period from September 12, 2023, to October 2, 2023, for anyone who turned 18 after the 2020 registration ended. However, the NDC claims that the exercise’s method will discourage many newly eligible voters from registering, which will result in them being denied the right to vote in the upcoming elections in 2024.
“The EC is applying the same law to only limit the registration to the district offices. We will explore all the available legal channels to ensure that we will get an outcome that will allow the elections to be more decentralized. We want to ensure that all our MPs are duly protected within the confines of our law, and we will definitely do that,” Mr. Edudzi Tamakloe stated.
There are seven political parties that are protesting the EC’s plan to hold limited registration at their local district offices.
The political parties say that the exercise will keep a lot of people who are old enough to vote from being able to do so. They have asked the EC to make the process more open so that the exercise can be done in all of the election areas.
They promised that they would not allow the process to go on unless all eligible citizens had a chance to register to vote. A nationwide registration drive, according to Commission Chair Jean Mensa, will take place in all 268 district offices.
