Accept NDC’s new demand on voter register to guarantee a credible election – LINSOD to EC

Lawyers In Search Of Democracy (LINSOD) has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to accept the National Democratic Congress (NDC) new request on the voter register to guarantee transparency and a credible 2024 election.

According to LINSOD, the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the NDC has made some demands following the IPAC engagement with the political stakeholders .

In their press release, the NDC says it has accepted the Electoral Commission’s promise to release the corrected and updated version of the Provisional Voters Register to the party within one week for scrutiny.

“The party also welcomes the Commission’s decision to re-exhibit the register online, but pleads with the Commission to also re-exhibit the register offline to give an opportunity to the majority of the Ghanaian electorate, who live in rural communities and do not possess the ability to check their information online.

“More importantly, the NDC demands a “multi-stakeholder” and inter-party examination of the IT system of the Electoral Commission with the aim of addressing the vulnerabilities of the system, which the Commission has admitted exist, and which had allowed for the several anomalies to be perpetrated in the Provisional Voters Register by unknown persons,” LINSOD disclosed in a statement.

It continued: “The NDC’s well-placed fear is that if the Commission’s IT system is not checked and the vulnerabilities remain, it may be useless to correct the anomalies since, those behind the criminal errors may again exploit the vulnerabilities to make the final register unfit once again before the general elections in December.”

Attached below is the full statement by LINSOD

IPAC FORENSIC AUDIT III