The Electoral Commission (EC) will not accept old voters ID cards as a a primary form of identification in the new registration exercise planned for April 2020.
This will be enforced if the new proposal for amendment in the legislation for the registration currently before Parliament becomes law.
The EC on Monday (March 16) sent a proposal to Parliament for an amendment in the Constitutional Instrument 91 (CI) which guides the conduct of elections in Ghana.
In the new proposal the EC is seeking an amendment in Regulation 1, which talks about documents to be accepted as a form of identification as a Ghanaian before registration.
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu made this known in a radio interview Wednesday morning (March 18, 2020).
He was speaking to Accra based Okay FM which was monitored by Graphic Online.
He said if it becomes law, the only primary documents to be accepted for registration would either be a Ghanaian passport or a Ghana national identification card (Ghana Card).
It excludes birth certificates.
Anyone who does not have any of those two documents would have to get people to vouch for them that they were indeed Ghanaians before they will be registered.
Per the move, anyone holding an old voters ID card issued from 2012 till date cannot use it to register.
This is because of the assumption that some people used national health insurance (NHIS) ID cards for the initial registration which has been outlawed by the Supreme Court and the EC ordered to remove names of people who used it to register.
Even though the EC before the 2016 general elections removed names of those who registered with the NHIS cards as their primary form of identification, Graphic Online understands there is still arguments in some political circles that there are some names still in the current register.
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Source: Daily Graphic
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Whether new or old register NPP will lose this 7 December elections base on many issues.***barred word***
Jean Mensah do know that we are all at risk and who is going out to stand on sun to write his or name ? You are a very bad and wicked woman.
So please know one can call this EC woman to other,with this deadly disease still this EC woman ia insisting to do this new ID card,hmmm were are the wise and peacemakers of Ghana.Nana Addo please come out and talk to the EC we need peace .think of the lives of children and women
Good move!! Dear fellow commentators if you like don't go and register as for me I will go and form the queue and register and and get my new voters card that will allow me to vote for Ghana's incoming president Prez Okyiri Abosom (GUM).
Good one there by EC. Now only Ghanaians will elect people who govern us and not STL, Togolese, and Burkina Faso citizens. This will make our leaders accountable listen to us and solve our problem. Ghana is on the way up
IS ONLY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL GO AND REGISTER
Instead of thinking how to prevent corona virus, u are rather talking about voters register. wicked people
Jean Mensa the Electoral Commissioner is more deadly than CoronaVirus