fter casting your ballots in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, remain at the polling station and observe critically what is happening at the centre, Kofi Bentil, Vice President of IMANI Ghana has urged Ghanaians.
His call is in sharp contrast to that of the Electoral Commission and National Commission on Civic Education for voters to leave polling stations after voting to safeguard the peace of the country.
Speaking at a public forum organised by the Let My Vote Count Alliance on Tuesday August 16, Mr Bentil, who is a private legal practitioner said voters risked having their ballots stolen if they left the polling station after casting their votes.
“Now your job is not to vote and go home. Vote and stay there, don’t just stay there, have as many as possible in what is called a filming chain. I am quite sure that here is no law that restricts people from staying at the polling station until the vote is counted. There is no law that stops anybody from viewing the process until it is finished.
“There is no law that stops you from standing within reasonable distance from the electoral officer and observing what he is doing. You should be in a place where you can see what he (Electoral Officer) is doing. Insist on it, he is not God. There is [also] no law against filming the whole electoral process so ask your filming brigade people that …they should film the process.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
