Allow political parties to observe vote transfer exercise – African Electoral Institute to EC 

African Electoral Institute (AEI) has admonished the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) to allow all political parties in the country to observe the ongoing vote transfer exercise across the country.

The Institute in a press statement explained that by allow the political parties to observe it will nib in the bud any iota of suspicion and to “underscore the EC’S motto of TRANSPARENCY.”

“The AEI wishes to remind the EC that election is a process, and the transfer exercise is part of the process.
Therefore, a mere observation of the vote transfer by political parties will go a long way to augment the transparency credentials of the EC and the acceptance of election results in good faith,” the statement added.

Below is the full statement 

PRESS RELEASE
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
DATE: 3rd JUNE, 2024

AFRICAN ELECTORAL INSTITUTE (AEI) ADMONISH THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA(EC) TO ALLOW POLITICAL PARTIES TO OBSERVE THE TRANSFER OF VOTES EXERCISE

African Electoral Institute (AEI) has sighted a memo from the EC’S Deputy Chairman of Operations to all EC’S Regional Directors dated 2nd June, 2024 not to allow political parties to observe the transfer of votes exercise by the EC.

The AEI is by this Press Release admonishing the EC to allow the political parties to observe this exercise to nib in the bud any iota of suspicion and to underscore the EC’S motto of TRANSPARENCY.

The AEI wishes to remind the EC that election is a process, and the transfer exercise is part of the process.
Therefore, a mere observation of the vote transfer by political parties will go a long way to augment the transparency credentials of the EC and the acceptance of election results in good faith.

SIGNED:
Augustus Kweku Eshun
(Director of Communications and External Relations)
Tel 024-460 9891

Deputy Director of Communications and ExternalRelations
Nii Adjin Adjin- Tettey
0540904550

3rd Dep. Director of Communications and ExternalRelations
Emmanuel Biri
0538421573 ( WESTERN REGION AND CENTRAL REGION )

Ex WO1 Alhaji Yussif Mahamah, Head- Electoral Security Department
0243311965

The African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter’s rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that “elections are won at the polling stations’’ and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for a free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.

Motto: “Integrity of Choice”

Source: Today.com.gh