The Chair of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei, has revealed that only 534 people will be taking part in this year’s general elections by proxy, denying allegations that the commission intends using the proxy voting process to rig the elections.
Mrs Osei also denied allegations that there were as many as 270,000 people on the proxy voters’ list, through which she intends to rig the polls for a particular party.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Mrs Osei also refuted accusations that the EC also intended to use the special or early voting process to rig the polls.
“We’ve also been told that we are going to use the special voting process to rig the elections. In 2012, we had about 120,000 people who took part in the special voting this year, the number is about half of that excluding the electoral staff and we’ve added the media this year. So the media and security personnel come to about 29,473, so how we are going to use this to rig the elections still defies our imagination.”
Mrs Osei’s response follows claims by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that it intends marching to the premises of the EC to demand the list of proxy voters ahead of the 7 December polls.
The party’s Director of Elections, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, told Class News that the march had become necessary because the EC had refused to release the list despite several demands.
“We may have to march to the commission to demand this list from them and we will encourage every NPP member everywhere who is free to escort us or accompany us to the commission to go and demand the list,” he said.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
