Director of Training at the Electoral Commission, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe has announced plans by the commission to rerun the parliamentary election at the Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2 in Dome Kwabenya.
This was after the Commission once again suspended the final declaration of the constituency results in its third attempt as its move to re-collate results from three polling stations only saw success in collating just two.
The third polling station’s results the Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2 remained unresolved due to persistent challenges.
Dr. Serebour Quaicoe explained that “the commission rejected one of them out rightly on the stance that it was declared on a wrong statement of poll because they used training sheets, which is not the one that they should use.”
“So the commission has rejected one, so we decided to come and add the two and see what happens.”
After adding the two valid results, the margin between the two leading candidates narrowed to just 165 votes.
However, the disputed result, involving 669 voters, could significantly alter the outcome. If all those votes were awarded to the trailing candidate, they would overtake the leading candidate.
This possibility led the EC to decide on a rerun at the affected polling station.
This was after the collation took a dramatic turn as disagreements between political parties and the EC threatened to derail the process.
The Electoral Commission has announced plans to hold a re-run election at a polling station in the Dome Kwabenya constituency. This decision follows the annulment of initial results due to missing pink sheets from the outstanding polling station.
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