GhanaWeb Polls: Over 80% say they will not participate in a new voter’ registration exercise

Majority of Ghanaians, who took part in a poll conducted by GhanaWeb say they will not participate in the new voter’ registration scheduled to be conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC).

The poll which was conducted on June 1, 2020, revealed that 20,621 votes, representing 83.89%, indicated they will not participate in the new voter’ registration exercise.

Results from the poll also reveal 3,425 votes, representing 13.93%, are open to participate should the exercise be held. Some 536 persons, also representing 2.18% said they were indifferent about the motion.

Since announcing its decision to acquire a new biometric voter management system (BVMS) and compile a new voters register, the EC has received the support of some political parties, led by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), while the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voters Register (IPRAN), which includes the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has kicked against the acquisition and the compilation.

Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo in his latest address to the nation, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, granted the Electoral Commission and the National Identification Authority, permission to go ahead with registrations despite calls to postpone the exercise to mitigate the spread of the novel Coronavirus


See the results from the poll:



Results from this poll is only representative of participants and therefore can not be generalised.

Background

GhanaWeb launched its polls in May with the first question being: Should the EC go ahead with the new register?

This poll question gained 141,132 responses in 48 hours and over 2,000 people commented under the poll expressing divergent views about the Electoral Commission and the new voters’ register.

The GhanaWeb Poll is an open-access poll that allows participants to self-select into participation. The results of the poll cannot be generalized, but are only representative of the participants of the poll.

The poll seeks to enable GhanaWeb readers to predict the opinions of Ghanaians on issues and decisions that affect the country.