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Ras 10 years ago

If the SC says the President was properly elected what is the need for reforms ???? In my opinion you only need reforms when things did not go on very well . If Ghanaians are crying for reforms then it implies certain things ...
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If the SC says the President was properly elected what is the need for reforms ???? In my opinion you only need reforms when things did not go on very well . If Ghanaians are crying for reforms then it implies certain things did not go on well .I stand to be corrected.
K. Boateng 10 years ago

The only Ghanaians crying for the so-called reforms are NPP who think things must always be done to favor them. Was it not the same EC that conducted the 2000 and the 2004 elections that saw the NPP winning? How come they did ...
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The only Ghanaians crying for the so-called reforms are NPP who think things must always be done to favor them. Was it not the same EC that conducted the 2000 and the 2004 elections that saw the NPP winning? How come they did not ask for reforms prior to the 2004 or 2008 elections? NPP is only made up of crying babies but discerning Ghanaians have no time for their antics.
Asempaye 10 years ago

You said it all. Even if the supreme GOD decends from the heavens to oversee our elections the loosing party would cry faul.ECS around the world don't call for reforms after every election because a party lost. There is no pe ...
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You said it all. Even if the supreme GOD decends from the heavens to oversee our elections the loosing party would cry faul.ECS around the world don't call for reforms after every election because a party lost. There is no perfect system any where in this world. We can only improve on challenges that occur and try to perfect.
DKB 10 years ago

I agree with you there is no perfect system anywhere in the world, but that is no excuse. We as Ghanaians should always strive for a perfect system to the best of our ability. If we adopt that attitude in all we do, we will m ...
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I agree with you there is no perfect system anywhere in the world, but that is no excuse. We as Ghanaians should always strive for a perfect system to the best of our ability. If we adopt that attitude in all we do, we will make progress as a nation. As much as no system is perfect, continuous improvement is what will reduce the likelyhood of a party losing an election crying foul.

Let us do things that will reduce dissatisfaction rather than hold to the status quo of doing the same thing the same way over and over again. If all parties are confident in the electoral process and the EC, it will go a long way to help in governance. So for those of you who think we should continue the same way, think again. Today things may have favoured you, but remember no condition is permanent.
ATIA 10 years ago

why did NDC raid the EC's office with cutlasses, sticks,pick axes,and home made guns in 2007 electoins? was it not the same Afari Djan who declared NDC winners in 1992 and 1995?

why did NDC raid the EC's office with cutlasses, sticks,pick axes,and home made guns in 2007 electoins? was it not the same Afari Djan who declared NDC winners in 1992 and 1995?
DKB 10 years ago

What childish argument. So because the EC conducted election in 2000 and 2004, they therefore cannot make mistakes from 2008 to date? Today you will claim someone is a cry baby, tomorrow when the shoe is on the other foot, it ...
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What childish argument. So because the EC conducted election in 2000 and 2004, they therefore cannot make mistakes from 2008 to date? Today you will claim someone is a cry baby, tomorrow when the shoe is on the other foot, it will be intresting to hear your comment. It is the attitudes of people like you which makes progress impossible. Everything to you is seen with political lenses. A discerning Ghanaian indeed, you don't even understand the word discerning.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

ATUGUBA APPROVED THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE. NPP MUST FIGHT AND REVERSE ANY RIGGING PROCESS BEFORE THE RESULT IS ACCEPTED AND DECLARED AT EACH INDIVIDUAL POLLING STATION. NEVER THINK OF TAKING ANY ELECTION DISPUTE MATTER TO THE SU ...
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ATUGUBA APPROVED THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE. NPP MUST FIGHT AND REVERSE ANY RIGGING PROCESS BEFORE THE RESULT IS ACCEPTED AND DECLARED AT EACH INDIVIDUAL POLLING STATION. NEVER THINK OF TAKING ANY ELECTION DISPUTE MATTER TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA. ATUGUBA APPROVED THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE, SO IT MUST BE USED. HOW CAN A WHOLE SUPREME COURT TELL US, A SIGNATURE ON A DOCUMENT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING? LOOK!! BROTHERS, THE PINK SHEET , COULD BE A SOPHISTICATED RIGGING TOOL IF HANDLED AS SUCH. NPP MUST RECRUIT THEIR OWN ELECTION SECURITY PERSONNEL WHO CAN INSIST AND IF POSSIBLE USE FORCE IN ORDER FOR THE EC CRIMINALS TO DO THE RIGHT THING AT EACH INDIVIDUAL POLLING STATION. NEVER TRUST NDC MANIPULATED GHANA POLICE. AS FOR AFARI GYAN, HE LACKS CREDIBILITY. HE MUST BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY!!
ATIA 10 years ago

why did NDC raid the EC's office with cutlasses, sticks,pick axes,and home made guns in 2007 elections? was it not the same Afari Djan who declared NDC winners in 1992 and 1995?

why did NDC raid the EC's office with cutlasses, sticks,pick axes,and home made guns in 2007 elections? was it not the same Afari Djan who declared NDC winners in 1992 and 1995?
CAPE COAST BOY 10 years ago

WE DON'T NEED ANY ELECTORAL REFORM KOJO AFARI GYAN AND SULE GARIBA MUST GO

WE DON'T NEED ANY ELECTORAL REFORM KOJO AFARI GYAN AND SULE GARIBA MUST GO
NII YAOTEY ATUA, LONDON 10 years ago

WHEN YOU RAN A BAD RACE, YOU GO AND TRAIN BETTER. NOT CUT THE LEGS OF THE WINNER. STOP ALL THIS STUPID ARGUEMENT ABOUT CHANGING AFARI-GYAN ECT. JUST HAVE A BETTER POLICY RATHER THAN FREE SHS.

WHEN YOU RAN A BAD RACE, YOU GO AND TRAIN BETTER. NOT CUT THE LEGS OF THE WINNER. STOP ALL THIS STUPID ARGUEMENT ABOUT CHANGING AFARI-GYAN ECT. JUST HAVE A BETTER POLICY RATHER THAN FREE SHS.
Kwesi Agbenu 10 years ago

They will make the new regulations. But the SC will not punish those who infringe on the rules. Do we need the rules?

They will make the new regulations. But the SC will not punish those who infringe on the rules. Do we need the rules?
ODIKRO HIMSELF 10 years ago

SO U SAY, Mr Thomas Hanyo, a mechanic, suggested that the verification equipment should be modified to give 100 per cent efficiency to avoid eligible voters from being disenfranchised. U SAY U HAD AN INFORMAL MEETING WITH SO ...
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SO U SAY, Mr Thomas Hanyo, a mechanic, suggested that the verification equipment should be modified to give 100 per cent efficiency to avoid eligible voters from being disenfranchised. U SAY U HAD AN INFORMAL MEETING WITH SOME BOTIANORIANS YET U SAY; "AND U SPOKE TO THE MASSES WHO TOLD U THEY HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE SUPREME COURT?" I ALSO OFFER A SUGGESTION TO YOU. KEEP YOUR VIEWS. THINK OF THEM FIRST. THEN KEEP THEM TO YOURSELF.
K.Y. Asante 10 years ago

The same NPP was crying for biometric verification machines after the 2008 elections. Instead of making reforms in their party, they thought their loss was caused by the conduct of the elections.

No party in Ghana can w ...
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The same NPP was crying for biometric verification machines after the 2008 elections. Instead of making reforms in their party, they thought their loss was caused by the conduct of the elections.

No party in Ghana can win elections solely based on party support. They all need the votes of floating voters. The candidate most appealing to the floating voters wins it for his/her party.

If a party fields a less appealing candidate, no amount of reforms at the EC can win them the elections.

Unfortunately, this is what the NPP refuses to accept. They can bring Nana Addo ten times, he will disappoint them ten times.
Abongo 10 years ago

The only Ghanians crying for reforms are Ashanti-Akyems. No Ghanian is crying for any reform idiot

The only Ghanians crying for reforms are Ashanti-Akyems. No Ghanian is crying for any reform idiot
Osei Yao 10 years ago

Shallow minds too have their say. So suggestion by any groups of people will only worsen the electoral process. The current processes are excellent on paper. With use, the problems will come up and lessons will be learnt. Thi ...
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Shallow minds too have their say. So suggestion by any groups of people will only worsen the electoral process. The current processes are excellent on paper. With use, the problems will come up and lessons will be learnt. This is the wase way of doing things. But there are too many fools who yell, "change everything now"
MoK 10 years ago

‘Elections will not be the same again’ - Dotse. The judge was being mischievous. In fact elections, from 1992, have never been the same. Remember the chaos and mayhem that was the 1992 elections, and the biometric technol ...
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‘Elections will not be the same again’ - Dotse. The judge was being mischievous. In fact elections, from 1992, have never been the same. Remember the chaos and mayhem that was the 1992 elections, and the biometric technology of 2012 which, if not for the bogus petition, would have been adjudged the most innovative. That is how we have managed to come this far. At any rate the challenges of Ghana using biometric verification devices for the first time in elections were successfully overcome and the whole world applauded Ghana’s electoral commission.
Ghana does not need radical electoral reforms. Our electoral system is still evolving. There have been gradual reforms in the electioneering process since its inception in 1992—from opaque ballot boxes to transparent boxes; from no picture to pictured voters register; etc. And indeed, many of the changes, including biometric elections, were suggestions of the NPP when they were in opposition. (Ironically, the NPP never made any changes in the electoral process when they were in government for eight years except in 2004 when they converted colored pictures of voter ID cards and voters register back to black-and-white.)
MoK 10 years ago

Ghana does not need any radical electoral reforms. The EC is not a power onto itself. There is the IPAC (Inter-Party Advisory Committee) to agree or disagree with any suggestion by EC;

Over-voting is when ballots cast exce ...
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Ghana does not need any radical electoral reforms. The EC is not a power onto itself. There is the IPAC (Inter-Party Advisory Committee) to agree or disagree with any suggestion by EC;

Over-voting is when ballots cast exceed names in voters register, period. This is the classic definition that has guided all our past elections successfully including 2000 and 2004 when NPP won;

Foreign materials are simply foreign ballots, meaning ballots that do not bear the polling station’s number, stamp or presiding officer’s signature;

The law states that only presiding officers shall sign the pink sheets. Those who did not sign did so deliberately. Listen to Baffoe-Bonnie on absence of presiding officer’s signature: ‘If a presiding officer, either from pressure of work, oversight, or plain mischief fails to sign, then fatally, hundreds of voters are disenfranchised. Again a corrupt politician needs only to team up with a few hundred presiding officers in an opponent’s stronghold, and bingo! fortunes are turned;

On Election Day, representatives of all political parties at the various collation centers together with the EC officials always co-ordinate the election results together to certify the winning presidential candidate;

The Supreme Court has not proposed any electoral reforms. It was only Justice Dotse who said ‘Elections will not be the same again’. Did he know elections have never been the same in Ghana since 1992? Is he aware that after every election the EC sits with political parties to review the rules, procedure and laws of the just ended election?
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Losers always want to blame their loss on the EC instead of their inability to effectively communicate their message with potential voters. There is no amount of tweaking the electoral process that will change election outcom ...
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Losers always want to blame their loss on the EC instead of their inability to effectively communicate their message with potential voters. There is no amount of tweaking the electoral process that will change election outcomes in Ghana; we need a change of participating candidates.
We know in Ghana there are farmers, herders and fishermen who have more wisdom in the pinky fingers than most of Ghana's political leaders including those on the Supreme Court but we ignore these wise men and wise women because they do not and cannot lie in his masters language; English written or spoken. Anyone who continues to believe Nana Akufo-Addo was cheated out of votes this time around would not accept anything short of making NPP zealots masters of all election processes. The problem with these people and their kind of thinking not only lacks intellectual reasoning but belies their foolishness for it was under the very EC Kufour won twice and no one sought drastic changes to correct EC crooked ways that aided Kufour.
The Supreme Court Justices who wanted to adhere to strict interpretation of the election statutes did not do service to reasoned thought processes because on one hand they ascribe reasons of potential problem with voting and or counting exercises that led some supervisors at some that stations not to have signed their names while they conveniently forgot that the statute required those individual to have verbally and or in writing provided reasons for their refusal to sign their signatures. You cannot have people, supposed to be wise men and wise women on our judicial benches intentionally or by design pick and chose which portions of a process they prefer and expect not to have perpetual changes coming down the pike with the EC if we allowed folly to reign supreme in Ghana.
It is about time we have these selfish clowns who continue to complain about the electoral process provide names of people they think are fit to rule Ghana either at the presidency or at the legislative body. We do not have wise men or wise women left in Ghana. We have incompetence running the show and thus a race to the bottom.
Nana Assamoah 10 years ago

From the verdict of the Supreme Court it is clear that no electorial reforms is worth implementation. It is clear from the ruling that even constutional changes cannot solve the electorial disputes. Whil ...
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From the verdict of the Supreme Court it is clear that no electorial reforms is worth implementation. It is clear from the ruling that even constutional changes cannot solve the electorial disputes. While the judges are protecting the right to vote they forgot that in every process in life there are regulations else there will be chaos.The existing procedure for votimg is okay if only those organising the elections will be honest and deligent.It is an open secret that during elections there is vote buying.......is it a crime or not? Some people go to vote without even knowing who to vote for. It is ture that the individual has the right to vote but looking at our system it is regretable that this important right to vote is used wrongly.People's right to vote is bought from them due to poverty, ignorance, grediness or selfishness. Only GOD knows when the right to vote will be properly.
THE CHOSEN ONE 10 years ago

PUBLIC AGENDA,IS THAT THE NAME GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR PARENT?
THESE KOKOASI NKURASIFO WILL NOT GO BACK TO BUSH WHERE THEY ARE CHAMPIONS AND LET US HAVE OUR PEACE.

PUBLIC AGENDA,IS THAT THE NAME GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR PARENT?
THESE KOKOASI NKURASIFO WILL NOT GO BACK TO BUSH WHERE THEY ARE CHAMPIONS AND LET US HAVE OUR PEACE.
matzcrorkz 9 years ago

piGtJ6 Great article.Really thank you! Awesome.

piGtJ6 Great article.Really thank you! Awesome.

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