The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that the Limited Voters Registration Exercise will take place on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 despite an injunction motion filed by the National Democratic Congress and four other political parties.
This was said in a statement issued by the EC on Monday, September 11.
The EC emphasised in its statement that registration will take place in all of its 268 District Offices.
“The Electoral Commission wishes to inform the General Public that the 2023 Voters Registration Exercise begins on Tuesday, 12th September 2023 and ends on Monday, 2nd October 2023. Persons who have attained the age of 18 years since the last registration exercise
and those who for one reason or the other did not register in 2020, should visit the District Office where they reside with either their Ghana Card or their Ghana
Passport.
“Eligible applicants who do not possess any of the identification documents listed above are required to present two (2) persons who are already registered voters to guarantee their registration”.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention People’s Party (CPP), the All People’s Congress, the Liberal Party of Ghana, and the Great Consolidated Popular Party on September 7 filed a lawsuit challenging the EC’s decision to limit the impending voter registration operation to its district offices.
They argue that the judgement will deprive many eligible voters of their right to vote, particularly those living in rural areas.
The Supreme Court was supposed to hear the application within a few days of its submission, but it has yet to do so.
The court was supposed to set a hearing date for the application, but it has yet to do so.
Former President John Dramani Mahama expressed his displeasure on Monday with the Supreme Court’s failure to schedule a hearing for an injunction application filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and four other political parties against the Electoral Commission (EC) over limited voter registration.
Mr Mahama in a Facebook post stated that “Contrary to the time-honoured practice of the Registrar of the Supreme Court giving dates for applications to be moved, the Registrar has, as of this afternoon, refused to give a date for the application for interlocutory injunction filed against the Electoral Commission (EC) in relation to the Commission’s decision to limit the upcoming voter registration exercise to its district offices only.
According to him, “the writ and injunction application were duly filed at the Supreme Court Registry on Thursday, September 7, 2023, at 2:50 p.m.”
“The Registrar informed the applicants’ representatives that they were awaiting the date to be given by the Chief Justice, who was outside the jurisdiction at the time. The Chief Justice returned and travelled to Cape Coast for the Bar Conference. As I write, the applicants’ representatives are still waiting at the registry of the Supreme Court”.
Read EC’s statement below;
