At Gonten station, registration started around 7 am and as at 9 am only 17 people had registered.

Mr Michael Paintsil, the Registration Officer said due to the density of the population, the St Theresa area was given two machines to work with instead of one so as to make the work efficient and easy.

He said “the exercise has been peaceful and people are cooperative” adding that “we are spending 10 days here so as to make it convenient and easy for everyone to take part in the exercise because the population is very large and the polling station is A and B.”

Mr Kingsley Asante, Electoral Commission Special Duty Officer at the center said the sun rays had affected the quality of the picture and urged prospective voters to come with their old voter identification cards, passport and any other identification card to make the process easier.

At the Internal Revenue Service, North Kaneshie branch, Diana Amoah, Electoral Commission Special Duty Officer, said the first person was registered as at 8:30am.

She said the technician who is to inspect the machine before they could operate, wasn’t in as at the time Ghana News Agency got there at 9:30am, so only one machine was working instead of two.

Mr Daniel Kaitoo, who had come to register expressed concern about the slow pace of the exercise, saying “I am afraid the EC cannot achieve their objective of the biometric registration in the area”.

Mr Kaitoo noted that the people collecting the data were very slow, and it was important for them to speed up the process in order to capture more people.**