The same NPP whose General Secretary failed to be present for the document to be authentic for public consumption will come out making unnecessary noise and lie about the gov't and EC for keeping the document. I hope NPP spok ... read full comment
The same NPP whose General Secretary failed to be present for the document to be authentic for public consumption will come out making unnecessary noise and lie about the gov't and EC for keeping the document. I hope NPP spokesman Kweku Baako is aware about his secretary's behavior. Dubious and cantankerous lying party called NPP.
Democrat 9 years ago
There is the need to make the elections results more transparent to remove doubts and avoid election petitions. I don’t understand why after 58 years after independence we cannot televise the elections results as some advan ... read full comment
There is the need to make the elections results more transparent to remove doubts and avoid election petitions. I don’t understand why after 58 years after independence we cannot televise the elections results as some advance countries do.
Why can’t the GBC televise the results as they come in to the Strong Room of the electoral commission? Well, you may argue that we don’t have the technology to televise from every constituency in Ghana. But there is availability of speaker telephones everywhere now and they can be amplified to the hearing of everyone. Nigeria was able to do it.
During elections in the advance democracies, what you see on television during the election results is that the Returning Election Officer would mount the platform at the collation centre and declare as follows: “I (then Name), The Returning Officer of ‘N’ constituency certify and declare the total number of votes cast as ‘X’ and the breakdown as follows: Party A; XX votes, Party B; XXX votes, Party C; XXXX votes etc and therefore declare Mr ‘NN’ as the elected member of this constituency”.
Can’t the GBC televise the results with the aid of telephone technology from the Strong Room of the electoral commission to make it more transparent and credible to the electorate? Where will be the room for Electoral Commissioner to manipulate results and the need to petition election results? If any Returning Officer also falsifies any results, they can also easily be found out if their declared results do not tally with their faxed pink sheets and cannot deny unsigned sheets.
Do we need legislation before this can be done? Let’s move forward, let check and balances work and let’s deepen democracy!
The same NPP whose General Secretary failed to be present for the document to be authentic for public consumption will come out making unnecessary noise and lie about the gov't and EC for keeping the document. I hope NPP spok ...
read full comment
There is the need to make the elections results more transparent to remove doubts and avoid election petitions. I don’t understand why after 58 years after independence we cannot televise the elections results as some advan ...
read full comment