The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed to block attempts by the Electoral Commission to print notices of poll and ballot papers for the upcoming elections from Friday October 11, 2024 even before presenting the provisional voter’s register to political parties.
The party’s position stems from the EC’s failure to provide statistics that will inform the printing of the Ballot Papers for the various constituencies.The NDC’s Deputy Director of Election and IT, Alhaji Madhi Jibril shares the party’s reservations with YawaNews
”how can EC go ahead with printing of Ballot Papers while they have not released the provisional voter register”
”we will resist any attempt by the EC to print out the ballot papers”
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Wednesday October, 9, 2024 stated that they will be commencing the printing of notices of poll and ballot papers from Friday, October 11, 2024.
It said the printing will take place at various printing houses, including Secprint Ltd, New Achimota; Acts Commercials, Odorkor; Ghana Publishing Company, Accra Central; Buck Press, Ofankor; Innolink Limited, North Industrial Area; Fonstat Limited, South Industrial Area; Check Point Limited, South Industrial Area; and Yasarko Company Limited, Laterbiokoshie.
Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations at EC made this known in a statement released on Wednesday, October 9.
The statement added, “The selected agents are kindly requested to report to the Director, Electoral Services on Thursday, 10th October 2024, at 11:00 am at the Electoral Commission’s Corporate Office for a brief orientation before the commencement of the printing.”
