NDC draws attention to irregularities at Special Voting

Accra, Dec 23, GNA - The National Democratic Congress (NDC), one of the two parties contesting Sunday December 28 Presidential Election Runoff, on Tuesday drew attention to what it described as irregularities at the Special Voting the Electoral Commission organised.

The party said it was not comfortable with defective ballot papers in the Northern Region and Madina in Accra, and the exponential increase in the number of special voters, while some of the voters waiting to cast their ballots "do not meet the criteria for the special voting."

Mr Alex Segbefia, Campaign Coordinator of the NDC, told a news conference in Accra that the party was bringing the matter to the attention of the Electoral Commission (EC) and the public to address the issues in order to maintain peace and eliminate the causes of electoral conflict.

"Increasing the figures for special voting at the last minute and doing things to create unnecessary tension will not help us to have free, fair and credible election.

"We would wish that the Electoral Commission, after the assurances given us yesterday at the peace Council meeting would do everything possible to ensure that we have a credible election so that after the election is over we will be able to live peacefully, co-exist with one another," Mr Segbefia said.