The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reiterated its call for the Electoral Commission (EC) to permit live coverage of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting set for Tuesday, October 1.
The meeting will focus on improving the integrity of the 2024 voters register.
Dr. Omane Boamah, the NDC’s Director of IT and Elections, expressed on Facebook that the EC should allow media coverage to provide Ghanaians with real-time, unbiased information regarding the state of the 2024 voters register, especially after the EC’s recent self-audit aimed at correcting significant errors.
The NDC and the EC have engaged in ongoing disputes over alleged discrepancies in the voter register, with the NDC demanding a forensic audit to address these issues.
Dr. Boamah emphasized that the EC has yet to resolve the discrepancies and insisted that the IPAC meeting should be accessible to the public in real-time.
Below is the full post.
The EC Must Permit Live (Media) Broadcast of the IPAC Meeting to Discuss the “2024 Voters Register”
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The Electoral Commission (EC) has invited political parties to a crucial IPAC meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, 1st October 2024, to discuss the 2024 voters register.
In the interest of the general public and Ghanaian voters, following the contestations between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Electoral Commission over the 2024 voters register, the EC must allow the media to provide live coverage of the proceedings at the IPAC meeting.
The live broadcast will provide Ghanaians with real-time and unbiased information on the state of the 2024 voters register after the EC’s so-called self-audit or autocorrection of their avoidable (criminal) errors and mistakes.
Additionally, this live media coverage will also completely eliminate the possibility of misinformation and misrepresentation after the IPAC meeting.
Let me emphasise that the NDC’s demand for a forensic audit of the register AND its IT system can not be comprehensively addressed at IPAC.
The truth is, #EAGLEEYES intercepted information shows as at yesterday, the Electoral Commission was still struggling to resolve voters whose names are still missing from the voters register. The problem is more than meets the eye.
Until the criminals who deliberately manipulated voters’ data for electoral gain are identified and smoked out, the same errors can recur before December 07, 2024.
Such data manipulation can lead to BVDs not being able to verify some selected voters even if their names are on hard copies of the voters’ register.
You’ll hear from the NDC soon…
