The Electoral Commission has now become “better” at “listening” to the concerns of stakeholders in the 2016 elections, Mr Ibrahim Adjei, a member of opposition-affiliated pressure group Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) has said.
The group had a fierce confrontation with the police last year during one of its demonstrations to get the election management body to purge the register of some 76,000 alleged Togolese.
Speaking to Prince Minkah on the Executive Breakfast Show about how the group’s advocacy has impacted the upcoming elections, Mr Adjei said “… the positives are these: there’s now a strong … democratic narrative or conversation in the length and breadth of Ghana where people are now demanding for a credible voters’ register,” even though he insists the country still does not have a “credible register”.
Nonetheless, “the processes have been moved to a more positive area,” he said, adding: “… I don’t believe it’s good to be negative all the time, where there’s positive, you say it.”
“Just this week, they [EC] abandoned the electronic transmission of results because the flaws in there were duly recognised and they didn’t put on the ‘we’re independent’ hat [and so] ‘to hell with you’. They are actually now listening better,” Mr Adjei said.
He also mentioned that the fact that the EC complied with the Supreme Court’s order to delete names of people who registered with their health insurance cards underscores his observation that the election management body is now listening more.
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You are lambasting someone and you fail to lift your eyes to see the good thing then you are an hypocrite but LMVCA has done the objective thing and acknowledged the paths of the EC which are beneficial to all and is applauding you do not have to criticize them.
My LMVCA colleagues, please do not be '***barred word***' by the EC's sudden change of mind to abandon the electronic transmission. The EC does not decide on anything about elections without consulting the NDC to see how they would have an advantage over the issue. They sat down to analyze the easiest and most credible way of retaining power where there wont be any electoral challenges. 1. To extend proxy voting for 40 days where they can let more people do the proxy 2. By misinforming the public on proxy that somebody can pick the forms and on his/her own without presenting the other person. 3. Those going to do the proxy are covered because all those basic things have been done and they would be issued with that authority. 4. Most of the names on this proxy are the 600,000 dead people which somehow have not been deleted, minors registered across the country. So that is why EC and Mahama are touting that this year's elections is going to be one of the most credible. The stealing has already been done and only waiting for the day for the proxy people to execute. They tried so many options to rig. E-transmission which has been abandoned and now proxy and vote transfer.