Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, Dr Serebour Quiacoo has debunked rumours that the Electoral Commission is attempting to compile a new voters’ register for the 2024 elections.
The Minority caucus in Parliament had alleged that the Electoral Commission (EC) was attempting to compile new voter’s register on the sole basis of the new Ghana card.
Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Leader, explained that a new register on this basis is a wasteful expenditure and will disenfranchise a lot of Ghanaians who have not registered or secured their cards yet.
During his address to journalists in Parliament, he said: “Our understanding as we pick it up is that the EC is desperately planning to discard the 2020 voters register and replace it with a new voter register, which will cause taxpayers and the people of Ghana 80 million dollars thereabout.”
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Speaking on Atinka TV’s morning show, Dr Serebour Quiacoo said the current one is credible and that is what will be used for the 2024 elections.
He also explained that the EC would require all new voters to register for their voters’ ID card with the Ghana card since it bears all the needed information.
For those who already have their voters’ ID Card, he clarified that they do not have to do any new registration with their Ghana cards.
“We are not going to compile a new voters’ register. The one we compiled in 2020 is very good and credible and that is what we will use for the election. Rather, we have done a new CI for continuous registration. With this, we allow those who are now reaching 18 years to be able to go to the EC office to register it and that is what we presented to Parliament which has brought a lot of issues,” he said.
He continued that, “If they said we are requesting for Ghana Card, it is true, but it is for those who have not done the registration at all, if you wrote your name in 2020, it is there and so you do not need the Ghana card for re-registration or anything.”
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