Over 50 persons who went to the LeKMA Polling station were not allowed to vote during the special voting on Monday, December, 2 2024.
They were denied voting because their names could not be found in the special voters’ register.
According to Ronney Gogo, the correspondent for Atinka TV, some soldiers couldn’t contain their frustration, threatening to boycott their assignment on Saturday in order to cast their votes on Saturday, December 7.
He mentioned that the soldiers had checked the register and noticed their names, so they were taken aback when they found their names missing.
“Some have threatened to boycott their assignment duty post to travel to their hometowns on Saturday to exercise their constitutional mandate as stated in the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana.
Meanwhile, reports coming from other polling centers indicate the exercise has been smooth since its start.
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@ Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam
At Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Constituency, Agyei Kwaku Mensah reported that voting had been going on smoothly.
He reported that voting started at exactly 07:00 hours at two designated polling stations where a total of 753 special voters were expected to cast their ballots.
The voting process has been without any challenge at all, with each voter spending a maximum of five minutes to cast their ballots, Agyei Kwaku Mensah stated.
As at 09:20 hours, he said a total of 98 people had cast their ballots.
Officers of the Electoral Commission (EC) picked up the ballot papers for both the presidential and parliamentary elections from the district police office at 06:00 hours and handed them over to the presiding officers of the two polling stations, he noted.
Each polling station, he stated, had 385 ballot papers each for the presidential and parliamentary elections.
He narrated that when the voters arrive at the polling station, they are identified by their voter identification card by the presiding officers.
They are then referred to the name reference officers who confirm their names from the names reference list, after which verification officers verify them with the Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs) and mark their little fingers with indelible ink.
The voters are directed to the presidential ballot issuer, pick up their ballot papers, go to the voting booth to cast their ballots.
They then move on to the parliamentary ballot issuer for their ballot papers, cast their vote and exit the polling stations.
Madam Eunice Bonsi, the District Electoral Officer, told Atinka News that the BVDs were working perfectly well, adding that the process had been very smooth.
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