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The Electoral Commission (EC) beginning Saturday July 18, 2020 will organise a voter registration exercise for eligible prison inmates across the country together with a nationwide mob-up registration for eligible students who could not register in the last exercise held in Senior High Schools.

Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission (EC) has asked qualified persons in the prisons and Senior High Schools to cooperate with the officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) to make the exercise successful.

The Electoral Commission on June 30, 2020 began processes to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 general elections. The exercise, which is being held nationwide, will end on August 6, 2020.

There have been concerns over the lack of social distancing and total disregard for COVID-19 safety protocols few days after the exercise began. In spite of calls for the exercise to be halted due to the increasing COVID-19 figures, the EC remains obstinate.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has also filed a suit over the EC’s decision to embark on a voters’ registration exercise in schools with the argument that the exercise in the Senior High Schools is illegal as the said the schools have not been gazetted as centres for the exercise.