The Electoral Commission of Ghana has stated that it “will try” to publish all polling station results on its website within 21 days after voting.
This move is intended to assist individuals and parties who may wish to file election petitions by providing access to detailed results.
The decision follows a recommendation from the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), which believes that this practice will enhance the country’s democracy rankings.
In an interview with TV3 on Friday, August 9, 2024, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, the Director of Training at the Electoral Commission, stated that the Commission will fulfill all recommendations in accordance with Constitutional Instrument (C.I.) 127.
“We are promising that for the polling station results, because of the quantum nature of the work, we will try and do that before the 21 days that are required for the filing of the petition.
But for the constituency, regional and national ones, we will try and put them there before we declare the results.”
“If you look at the constituency collation results, they will see that all the polling station results are there.
The parties will have to look at it and accept that these are a true reflection of the collated results,” he stated.
“We know that there are certain weaknesses, certain lapses in our democracy and some of these weaknesses relate to the electoral process.
“The European Union which since 2012, has consistently observed elections in Ghana has always come out with certain recommendations to help us to reform in order to fast track our democracy and not to backtrack it.”
“One of them has to do with the publication of polling station by polling station results officially on the websites of the Electoral Commission,” he said.
The Electoral Commission is also seeking to publish all guidelines and procedures on irregularities on its website.
