Voting Regions - Ho

In Ho, there is a heavy Voter turnout in the Ho Municipality this morning as before 0700 hours long queues had formed at four polling stations visited by the Ghana News Agency. These are located at the High Court, the Volta Region Museum, Anglican Primary School, the United Pentecostal Primary School and the Ho Sports Stadium.

The Ho Municipality is silent with a sprinkling of vehicular movement and very few pedestrians some of whom were heading in the direction of polling stations.

This is in sharp contrast to the previously slow response of voters at the start of elections.

At the High Court polling station where 22 voters had queued up as at 0654 hours, 73 out of 332 registered voters had cast their votes and the polling station was bare of voters when the GNA visited there again at 0818 hours.

Mr Emmanuel Glalah, an agent of the NDC at the Anglican Primary School Polling Station, said the heavy morning turnout might probably be an indication of the keenness of this year's election. Party agents the GNA spoke to said they were satisfied with the arrangements at the polling stations except that it was taking a long time for voters to go through the voting processes. Some of them said it was faster to locate voters whose names were on the non-photograph voters' list because those names were in alphabetical order unlike those bearing the photographs of voters. At the Volta Regional Museum Polling station 16 people out of 736 registered voters had cast their votes as at 0810 hours, 70 out of 661 on the register at the Anglican Primary Polling station had voted by 0803 hours.

At the United Pentecostal Primary School polling station, 13 out of 630 on the list had voted by 0815 hours, while eight out of 1,053 had voted at the Sports Stadium Polling Station by 0747 hours.