On December 3, 2024, the Ghana Police Service and the Eastern Regional Elections Security Taskforce oversaw the destruction of defective ballots that had been recalled by the Electoral Commission (EC).
The process was conducted with strict oversight from constituency election directors of all political parties. The EC had suspended the Special Voting exercise for the Eastern and Western regions due to these ballot issues.
With the exception of Afram Plains North and South Constituencies, all the remaining 31 Constituencies presented their ballots for both presidential and parliamentary to be destroyed.
The Eastern Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, John Appiah Baffour, who spoke to Citi News, expressed satisfaction with the process.
“The exercise has been very successful. Actually, we brought all the parties together and the constituency executives of the NPP, NDC, and CPP, and all of them have been here.
They checked the seals on the ballot paper bags, and they saw that everything was intact before we offloaded them and burned them. So it has been very successful.”
