The Electoral Commission’s (EC) policy to use the Ghana Card as the only form of identification to register to vote in the 2024 elections was fruitless as Parliament ordered the electoral body to start over on March 31.
Days after representatives from the EC, the National Identification Authority (NIA), and the Finance Minister briefed the Committee, the Committee of a Whole of Parliament made its decision
In its report, the Committee instructed the EC to make sure that all eligible voters could obtain their Ghana cards prior to the new CI’s introduction to Parliament for approval.
Please read some things stated in the committee’s report
1. Lack of adequate resources to ensure that every eligible Ghanaian is registered before the 2024 general elections.
2. Trust deficits between the political parties and the consequent lack of consensus on the implementation of this time
3. The Committee is emphatic in its position that this is not the time to introduce and implement the Ghana Card as the only means of identification of citizenship for the purposes of voter registration.
4. The EC should tarry slowly until every eligible voter is afforded the opportunity to register and procure the Ghana card before the legislation of such compulsion.
5. Inclusion of the guarantor system as part of the reforms.
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