Voting Progress - Kwashieman

At the Kwashieman Christ Mission A and B polling centres in the Ablekuma North Constituency, voting materials arrived five minutes late. However, voters who were seated on plastic chairs waited patiently until the Electoral Officers and Police personnel arrived with the materials. Mr. Amoako Attah Presiding Officer for Christ Mission B centre immediately distributed the voting materials among the personnel as soon as the materials arrived but some of the voters angrily shouted, "You are late, we want to vote early".

At the Kwashieman Anglican J.S.S., Mr. Elliot Class-Peters, the Presiding Officer told the GNA that voting started at 0750 hours. According to him, their voting materials arrived at 0730 hours. He said the complaints he had received were voters who could not identifying where to cast their votes because they did not check during the voter's exhibition exercise.

At the Blue Lagoon Hotel centre at Sakaman, Mr. Patrick Acheampong told the GNA that voting started at 0710 hours. He said the only problem at the station was a female voter who had a male photograph against her name in the register. She was allowed to vote because her voter's identification card carried the correct information. Forty people had so far voted at the time of the visit. At the Bethel Baptist Church Centre, Mr. Isaac Oppong, the Presiding Officer pointed out that one of his polling assistants was absent.

According to him, only the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had their party representatives at the centre.

"The independent candidate, the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC)'s representatives were absent". Although there was a queue, the Electoral Officers had arranged chairs for the voters to sit and wait for their turn. Two European Union (EU) observers were present with four policemen at the centre.