The compilation of a new voters’ register for the 2020 general election will begin in mid-April, ABC News can confirm.
According to the Electoral Commission’s Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebour Quaicoe, the exercise is expected to commence in April and end in May in order to make room for an exhibition exrcise.
“We want to start by mid-April and by the end of May, we would have finished,” he told Accra-based Starr Fm.
The announcement comes amidst calls from some political parties and Civil Society Organizations that the Commission should abort any plan to use ‘taxpayers’ money for the ‘wasteful’ venture.
Though the EC for weeks now has insisted that the existing register has numerous challenges hence the need for a new one, the opposition National Democratic Congress and a number of civil society groups have opposed the idea.
However, speaking on Starr FM, Dr Serebour said the EC cannot make use of the NIA data since it doesn’t include the data of all 10 million people targeted for the registration.
“We have a challenge with their data, we are targeting over 10 million people but they have about 7 million so we don’t know when the will be ready. And besides, we have to attach a polling station to all those numbers,” he said.
