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I'm not clear in my mind what over-voting is – Afari Gyan

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  • Before & After 10 years ago

    Today, at 12:15, Dr. Afari Gyan announced the election results again. If and only if the NPP had won at all the constituencies that had been cancelled, with JDM getting 0 votes, Akufo Addo still had no chance to be president. ...
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  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    THIS IS GETTING INTERESTING. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    PROPER LONDON


    You are brave 'mennnnnnnn'! Go on and say your mind after all Ghana is democractic, had independence since 1957 6th of March and thereafter every Ghanaian being and elephant or a Rat has freedom of speech.
    ...
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  • CO. CHeif Idiot KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    How did this man came to head this commission ? It's unbelievable that he even doesn't know the rules governing his establishment.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    NPP do not even know the meaning of overvoting.

  • NANA O!! 10 years ago

    I CAN NOW CONFIDENTLY CONFIRM THAT WITH THE LIARS THAT AFRI DJAN HAS GIVEN IN COURT TODAY, NPP WILL DEFINITELY WIN THIS CASE ONE TOUCH.
    JUSTICE PAIL BAFFOE BONNIE REALISED THAT AFARI DWAN WAS LYING AND IN COURT,ONCE A LIAR, ...
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  • OSUO ABRUBUOR 10 years ago

    Where have you been Nana?

    It is really nice to have you back but please stick to the subjects - no insults please.

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  • OLIVER TWIST 10 years ago

    .The BNI officers must act fast to apprehend these NPP killers before they kill another innocient Ghanaian mother/sister/girl.

    NPP are known to be killers, murderers and criminals.
    In 2000, these shameless murderers kille ...
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  • policy 10 years ago

    what party killed the judges? which party is killer. pndc/ndc has ruled the country over two decades where is their success?

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: OBAA YAA

    ...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever ques ...
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  • ABBA 10 years ago

    THERE IS NO CONSTITUENCY IN GHANA WHWRE A REGISTERED VOTER DID NOT DIE BEFORE THE ELECTION. SO, 100% VOTER TURN OUT IN GHANA IS A COMPLETE LIE

  • Ckm - Independent 10 years ago

    AHH WHY OH WHY!!!!!!!!!!!AFRICA IS DOOMED, WITH PEOPLE LIKE THIS IN SENSITIVE DEPARTMENTS CLAIMING SERIAL NUMBERS ARE MEANINGLESS, THAT SIMPLY ESTABLISHES THE CORRUPTION GOING ON IN GHANA. I SOMETIMES JUST FEEL HURT TO BE PAR ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    Dr. Afari Gyan is a DISGRACE. A learned person avoiding the truth in the presence of the whole world.

  • OBAA YAA 10 years ago

    Should someone ask EC is question for me …..Right now there nine judges presiding over the case. Suppose at the end of it all , the judges cast their vote and the result is 6-5 in NPP favor. Does it mean there was in over ...
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  • ECOMINI 10 years ago

    This is just unbelievable! I cannot believe that Afari-Djan said this.

  • Wisdom KK 10 years ago

    This is how you people condemn anyone who has a different opinion or views from yours even within the same party. Calling people stupid as if you are the wisest, and has never talked or acted stupidly before. You always want ...
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  • OBAA YAA 10 years ago

    Dull, is the person who is in-charge of our electoral commission? The man does not know that these two definitions amount to the same thing “over voting”

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    WISE MAN, THE POINT AT STAKE IS NOT ;EARNING LESSON. IT IS ABOUT ELECTORAL MALPRACTICES AND POSSIBLE FRAUD. SHOW WISDOM BY STICKING TO THE POINT

  • Wisdom KK 10 years ago

    People are still suffering from delusions. Any Psychiatrists to their rescue?

  • ghanaman 10 years ago

    An overvote occurs when one votes for more than the maximum number of selections allowed in a contest.[1] The result is a spoilt vote which is not included in the final tally.

    One example of an overvote would be voting for ...
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  • SIMPLY RUTHLESS 10 years ago

    NPP and NDC rivalry has gone into the bones of every Ghanaian and if care is not taken our country will run into a ditch just to say that this kind of partisan sympathy is clearly displayed at the bench whereby NDC is favoure ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    STOP CALLING YOUR FELLOW GHANAIAN Dog's son. RESPECT HIS VIEWS EVEN IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH HIM.

  • jd, usa 10 years ago

    EI NANA!! TALKING IN FAVOR OF NPP. GOD COME DOWN AND BLESS HIM

  • Selassie Dzokoto 10 years ago

    Grey hair doesn't always depict wisdom because if that was the perception, Afari Djan has refuted it hands down. I am embarrassingly appalled by his definition of over-voting. How could he stoop to this level by saying he was ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    First definition: Over-voting occurs when the number of votes cast exceeds the number of registered voters.

    Second definition: Over-voting occurs when the number of votes cast exceeds the number of ballots issued to voters ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    SAD INDEED. THERE IS ONE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT THAT HE HAS BEEN TAMPERING WITH GHANAIAN ELECTIONS SINCE 1992, UNBEKNOWN TO GHANAIANS.

  • nee 10 years ago

    please go back and read the atticle wee b4 u comment thx

  • Selassie Dzokoto 10 years ago

    You should have told me what i missed that you know. By the way, your "atticle" is spelt ARTICLE. Obviously, its you who didn't understand.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    What sort of research did NPP do? Their entire petition is porous, baseless, erratic and elementary. Throw this case out.

  • NANA O!! 10 years ago

    NOW AFARI DJAN IS CONTRADICTING HIMSELF WITH THE "DEFINITION OF OVERVOTING". NO WONDER THE JUDGES HAVE REALISED AFARI DJAN IS LYING.
    THANK YOU GOD FOR EXPOSING AFARI DWAN AND THE SHAMELESS NDC

  • nee 10 years ago

    *THANK YOU GOD FOR EXPOSING AFARI DWAN( or goat ) AND THE SHAMELESS NDC*
    is this what u want to reduce ghana to my bro ?? politicks of insults?? HOW DO U REALLY EXPECT US TO HAVE PEACE ??

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    I think Afari Djan has made us lose the case. How on earth does a commissioner of his calibre not know what an over voting is ? I have defended the NDC all along till today. I am throwing in the towel with a bowed head. He ha ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    YOUR RHETORIC DOES NOT NEGATE THE FACT THAT THERE WERE ELECTION IRREGULARITIES AND POSSIBLY PREMEDITATED FRAUD. WE ARE AT A JUNCTURE WHERE THE FATE OF GHANA IS AT STAKE AS WE CONTEMPLATE THE BETTER GHANA WHICH IS YET TO BE; S ...
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  • Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

    Kola, tell me what secondary school you attended in Ghana so that I don't send any of my family members there. You are a template of what illiteracy is. SAY YOUR MIND? What kind of English is that?

  • SHII PUTUH 10 years ago

    This NDC educated illiterate KOLA is causing havoc on the forum.

  • JOE ATTIAS 10 years ago

    OH AFRICA!!!!!!
    ONE OF YOUR STAR ELECTORAL COMMISSIONERS SEES OVER VOTING IN ONLY A SITUATION WHERE VOTES CAST EXCEEDS REGISTERED VOTERS. THIS THINKING ALSO GOES TO EXPLAIN WHY IN YOUR PART OF WORLD, EVERY DEATH IS ATTRIBUTE ...
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  • kk 10 years ago

    Now he does not know what over-voting is. Even if more votes are found in the Box than number of ballots issued to voters, it can not be said to be over-voting says Afari Djan. With all his number of years of experience and t ...
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  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    I think any issue on over voting MUST, as Afari Djan said, consider the Register, The ballot papers, and the BVM. Anything outside this is useless and baseless. Pinksheets depend on the above to be AUTHENTIC.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Desperately searching for some sense in this

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG. IT IS BOTH WAY. MACHINES BRING OUT THE RESULTS OF WHAT IT IS FED. A MACHINE DOES NOT HAVE THE INDEPENDENT CAPACITY TO DETERMINE FOR INSTANCE THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS. IT NEEDS TO BE FED WITH T ...
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  • KWAKU DARLING 10 years ago

    The reasons used to cancel the results of those polling stations must be used consistently to cancel results in other polling stations where those reasons accounted for the cancellation also occured. This is what the NPP is a ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    The cases referred to showed instances where the ballots in the box was more than the ballots issued.

    Absence of Presiding Officer's signatures. Is that over voting?
    Duplicated serial numbers. Is that over voting? Non bio ...
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  • Woman 10 years ago

    Now I know you are confused! whose side are you on? what you wrote above definitely supports the petitioners!

  • CO. CHeif Idiot KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    This GENERAL DeGAULE aka Terribly Spe cifiC and probably KWASIATO KOLA is not only a disgrace to NDC, but to Ghana as a whole if such things who hate Akans exists in our diverse society.

  • hermit 10 years ago

    It's all a farce, cooked and sold to Ghanaians in the name of democracy. The integrity of the electoral commission is in doubt. the chairman doesn't even understand what over voting is. Who even made this mockery the Chairman ...
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  • NAA 10 years ago

    what is over voting and listen to your self. this will only happen in Ghana where the truth is always buried and justice suffers

  • Ewusi 10 years ago

    Afri Gyan says petitioners has no evidence.He is confused swimming in a croc free pond ,telling the court he do not know what over voting is.What would happen if he faces Addison.

  • SHII PUTUH 10 years ago

    Why is it that Afari Odwang isn't pleading for NO CONTEST against Addison ?

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    The question I posed is do all the petitioners grounds for annulling 4 million votes fall in the over voting bracket? But morons like you four NPP twarts can't see beyond your own ignorant horizons.

    For the petirtioners e ...
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  • Frank Mensah 10 years ago

    Go and sleep after a night of toilet cleaning, you moron. The EC himself cannot define what over voting is and you asshole is behaving like the best that ever happened after sliced bread, dummy.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    How many times will you idiots get it in your shit heads that over voting is when ballots cast exceeds registered voters at the polling station. That is what occured in the NPP strongholds of Ashanti and Eastern Region when K ...
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  • AMASS 10 years ago

    Typical trokosi toilet cleaner always with inferiority complex with regions that accomodqate your ekoro tuberclosis akpeteshie drinking rapists family.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    Your whole mind is toilet, toilet. toilet! Make a valid case. Say something sensible. Please I'm begging you. I am looking for an intelligent person to debate with.

  • okofo 10 years ago

    My friend I just read your arguments you're having back and forth with other forummers.

    At the polling station, ballot papers are issued to voters who're already verified to vote. These people proceed to vote, and let's s ...
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  • ********** 10 years ago

    I hope your explanation gets into the head of this freak of nature who is insulting anyone who do not agree with his stupid understanding of over voting.
    It is clear that Afari Gyan was "caught in the web" with that question ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    MIND YOUR WORDS. STATE YOUR POINT OR ARGUMENT WITHOUT THOSE UNCOUTH WORDS. T

  • MAHA 10 years ago

    YOU ARE REALLY A FOOL WHO IS CONFUSED BEYOND REDEMPTION.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    State your case.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Can' you people discuss a thing without insulting each other?

    You say you have a problem with "over-voting"?
    Maybe you can help me define what happened in the ff. situation:
    One hundred (100) people have been duly regi ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    YOU HAVE SPOKEN WISDOM. YOUR ANALYSIS IS SO CLEAR. KEEP UP WITH YOUR OBJECTIVITY AND WISDOM

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    State your case if you have any.Unlikely because there is nothing in your brain. Just another hopeless NPP fanatic

  • MAHA 10 years ago

    If you have anything in your brain you would not be cleaning toilets in Italy.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    My friend , I am in the UK and get Sarpong with his cheap IP address scanner to tell you which Corporate PC I'm using.

  • ralph 10 years ago

    seriously? a whole boss. plz give me a break. nonsense

  • JDM 10 years ago

    This man must be shot.

  • Kofi Ayivor 10 years ago

    Let's punish him and kill him like the uncivilized did

  • AKOTO 10 years ago

    Your useless illiterate father is nonsense! The one who born you with a prostitute.Nanduruwa!

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    I have been a "nanduruwa" all the way up untill now. Afari Djan is a disgrace to all of us. I supported him blindly up till today. How on earth can he tell the world he does not know what an overvoting is ?

  • USA 10 years ago

    It obvious second is not correct

  • What a lie 10 years ago

    I am now convinced that Afari Gyan is only out to lie to save his skin. How can he give such a definition for over-voting. So as long as the number of voters on the voters register is not exceeded, there can be no over-voting ...
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  • Sinew 10 years ago

    This SC case has thrown light on the incompetence of Mr. Afari Gyan. This man has no core values. He is rotten to the core.

  • Serious 10 years ago

    A whole EC boss cant explain what over voting means eh!!!!! he is just there to lie to SC

  • John T 10 years ago

    So to Afari Gyan and the NDC, there can be no over-voting so long as the ballots counted do not exceed the number of eligible voters. Interesting!!!!

    Suppose there are 100 voters on the roll at a polling station. Records s ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    How many of the pink sheets show the simplistic case you have outlined.

    First the NPP Polling Agents signed the Pink Sheets. Thery would not have done so if there had been incidence of people stuffing more than one ballot ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    What is soiled ballot and invalid ballot? Do we have such things after votes have been counted? Like all Ewes, you argue for argument sake. You are a professional lying arguer who never makes sense. I want you to go over your ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    Read the Constitutional Instrument for the grounds on which ballots will be deemed invalid. When you have educated yourself then we can have a sensible debate devoid of your trade mark insults.

  • Kofi/Accra 10 years ago

    Idiot, if you are that smart whay are you cleaning toilets somewhere in Italy?

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    The toilets have PC's which allows me to access Ghanaweb. As you usual an idiot like you has no substantive counter argument just the usual Kofi Juma, Afriyie bush mentality.

  • AMASS 10 years ago

    Idiot, use your brains. The fact that you clean toilets does not mean you spend 24/7/365 time there. And you fool think you are smart. Bush mentality is where your trokosi family are doing menial jobs as farm labourers.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    Do you know the difference between PRINCIPLE and EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE or EVIDENCE of any kind. Go an educate yourself and come back for an intelligent debate.

  • Pxia 10 years ago

    Amass,Kofi/Accra,Osei Tawiah and Frank Mensah,you need to understand that there is no shame or disgrace in being a toilet cleaner.We are so full of ourselves that we feel the essential need of catering for hygiene is beneath ...
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  • KONKONSA 10 years ago

    But through out your effusions you have failed to give a basic definition of over voting which I think is at the core of the issue. Let us all agree on a working definition and confront the pink sheets with same.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    OVER VOTING IS WHEN THE VOTES CAST EXCEEDS THE REGISTERED VOTERS AT THE POLLING STATION. That is what used to happen in the NPP stronghold in Ashanti Region when Kuffour won.

  • Wisdom KK 10 years ago

    Why do you want to make your self one of the judges on the case? Where is your law degree. Leave it to the judges to decide. Do you think your interpretation or understanding will be better than that of the nine learned men o ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    Shameful indeed ! The entire world knows this to be true but we have been pretending that everything is OK. Afari Djan has disappointed me a lot today. Now I believe they stole the elections. I just dont want to be part of it ...
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  • Gabelee 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan need deliverance

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    YOUR REASONING AND ANALYSIS IS SOUND.
    VERY SAD INDEED. THERE IS A BELIEF THAT DR AFARI-GYAN HAS BEEN TAMPERING WITH GHANA'S ELECTIONS SINCE 1992, UNBEKNOWN TO GHANAIANS. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THERE COULD OR WOULD BE A RETROSP ...
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  • prof 10 years ago

    You damned right... and that is how they cheat..||
    it's like finding in an audit, multifarious and convoluted accounting entries, such that, it is so confusing you may just assume some entries are right and go with the flow ...
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  • ZARK 10 years ago

    GHANA MAKE THIS MAN REST

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    GHANA'S REFUSAL TO TACKLE CORRUPTION AT ALL LEVELS IS THE REASON WHY THEY CONTINUE TO GO TO BORROW FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. WE HAVE HIGH REGARDS FOR DR AFARI-GYAN AS A PERSON. BUT HE HAS MISCONDUCTED HIMSELF AS A MAN IN WHOM THE ...
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  • WISE 10 years ago

    Anyone with a clear concience and unbiased mindset will agree that Afari Gyan is either dishonest or intellectually bankrupt.

    Anyone who agrees with him should examine their conscience or intellect. Afari Gyan can never b ...
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  • HOHOHO 10 years ago

    only npp can tell the true meaning of over voting.

  • KOKROBITE 10 years ago

    IF HONORABLE - HIS EXCELLENCY MR. KWADWO AFARI GYANG, THE GHANA ELECTORAL BOSS, WHO AT THE BEGINNING OF BEING IN THE WITNESS BOX "LECTURED" AND SAID HE IS ONE OF THE BEST ELECTORAL BOSSES IN AFRICA, DOES NOW NOT KNOW WHAT " ...
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  • UFO 10 years ago

    He has forgotten that the whole world is watchingh him. Someone who presided over election in other countries. He is disgrcing himself.

    Cannot define over-votong. Voter turn out was 79 or so person but you define over vot ...
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  • PADDY 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN, WITH YOUR FALSE DEFINITION,YOU WILL SOON HANG YOURSELF.THE TRUTH BELONGS TO THE OF GHANA. BELIEVE IN ME.

  • PADDY 10 years ago

    THE TRUTH BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF GHANA.

  • NAA4U 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN'S USE OF HE IS NOT SURE IN HIS MIND IS JUST A WAY TO SAY HE DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE DEFINITIONS GIVEN.

    THIS IS WHY HE GAVE HIS OWN DEFINITIOIN AND INSISTS ON STICKING TO THAT CLASSICAL DEFINITION

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Gov. Should protect these two patriotics , Akua Donkor and Wereko Brobby now!! These 2 individuals were nation builders, Gov. Should look for their well being before domestic Akan's npp tribal terrorists will throw their bomb ...
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  • NEWS NIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Listen to the lunatics advise, NPP

  • kk 10 years ago

    Afari Djan's missdeeds has finally caught up with him. A whole ec boss who has no understanding of a repeated task over the years shame unto you

  • Mike 10 years ago

    This guy is Crazy. It's obvious that he doesn't know what over voting is.
    The boss himself doesn't know what over voting is. You don't have to be a PHD holder to know what over voting is. This is simple General JSS maths.
    T ...
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  • Afari 10 years ago

    Please Mr Vice Chacellor of University of Ghana and boss of WAEC, revoke Dr Afari Gyan's certificates. He is a disgrace to all learned colleagues of U of G and WAEC.

  • kk 10 years ago

    afari retires in shame. that is ur actual marks obtained for your service. a true assistant to J O Boateng
    remember him?

  • Teiku 10 years ago

    This is matter does not need a rocket science analysis. Clearly this means that overvoting can occur at different levels and depending on which level inquisition could be made to certain group of people to explain the anomaly ...
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  • ESI 10 years ago

    CAN ADDISON WIN WITH TOO MANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE SC JUDGES.I BET TO DEFFER.OOOOO

  • Dross Mahama 10 years ago

    It is part of court room practice. Did you watch Tsatsu and Lithur objecting Addison too. Addison is a better lawyer than the two!

  • BENLO 10 years ago

    I PITY NPP FOR GOING FOR ADDISON AS LAWYER.

  • Onslopogas 10 years ago

    U see how funny afari gyan is?Absolutely ridiculous.A whole electoral commisioner can't simply define 'over-voting' which should be an A B C basics in all election/voting books.How low you stoop afari?Your doctorate must be s ...
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  • D/Sgt. Nuamah 10 years ago

    How about a situation where no death was recorded? And where every one voted. Tha is especially in smaller communities. The classical definition given by Dr. Afari Gyan is representative of small communities rather than more ...
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  • HARUNA IDDRISU 10 years ago

    YOU KNOW WHAT OVER PAYMENT IS BUT DONT KNOW WHAT OVER VOTING IS

  • happy boy 10 years ago

    Overvote


    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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    An overvote occurs when one votes for more than the maximum number of selections allowed in a contest.[1] The result is a spoilt vote ...
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  • happy boy 10 years ago

    I disagree with the learned judge.he cannot just assume .if 10 persons registered in a constituency and 10 persons voted the it is a hundred percent turn out fort that constituency

  • heinz Usa 10 years ago

    Am very surprised a whole GHana EC Boss is not clear about de definition of over voting and some are also using dictionaries to explain it.Infact Afari Gyan has made the nigerians here laughing at us and am very sad

  • km 10 years ago

    Happy Boy, I am sorry citing Wiki,is not an accepatable source of reference in academia. This is because ANYONE CAN PUT SOMETHING IN THERE. IT IS AN OPEN SOURCE, SO NOT LEGIT. I am sorry. Maybe it is acceptable in Ghana but n ...
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  • PROF. 10 years ago

    The judge was attempting to point an error in the thinking and classical definition provided by Dr. Afari Gyan.
    By the EC boss' definition, over-voting occurs ONLY if:
    If BC > RV
    where BC=Ballot Cast and;
    RV=Registe ...
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  • anna 10 years ago

    pls be honest for once Mr Afari Gyan u are the boss!!!!!!

  • Lawrence 10 years ago

    What a foolish defence in favour of the NPP by this biased NPP judge? What if nobody dies? Come what may your arrogant wee smoking Akufo Addo will be an idiot of the past so that Ghana can move forward.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Once upon a time, there was an NDC cat who died. When she got to heaven, God asked her how she liked being on earth. She told the Lord that it was awful -- she had to sleep in cold back alleys on pink sheets, where there was ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    But Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie disagreed, he said in principle, it was not possible for a polling station to record 100% turn out.

    Polling stations with hundred voters where bio metric registration has prevented the incide ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    You are all over the place arguing foolishly and emotionally believing in them. Tell me where in the world a polling station has ever recorded 100% voter registration turn out with exactly the same people who registered all v ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    Just because you shoot your foul mouth off and hide your ignorance with insults does not mean you make sense.
    Tell you in the world? Voting is compulsory in Australia for a start. So a moron like you would not know that.
    ...
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  • TOGBE DAUGHTER FUCKER 10 years ago

    Principle is what you trokosis don't have and that is why you fuck your daughters and sheep.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    No wonder the NPP is such a lost cause with such idiots like you as fanatical supporters. No sensible debate. No logical arguments. Just toilet and toilet and more toilet.

  • KONKONSA 10 years ago

    My friend stop being emotional any employ your faculties. If Australia has a compulsory voting system, what has that got to do with someone who gets involved in an accident and is coma induced? You are yet to counter the argu ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    National elections are collated votes from constituencies and polling stations. We are talking about polling stations. The learned Judge says a 100% turn out is not possible IN PRINCIPLE at any polling station. Your colleague ...
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  • ********** 10 years ago

    Voting is compulsory in Australia does not mean they register hundred per cent voter turn out. My friend stop taking us for granted. If you support NDC, go ahead and support them but no bull crap please.

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Tell us in Ghana where there has ever been a 100% turnout in any polling station? Even the smallest polling station with 4 registered voters did not turn up 100%.

    Despite the fact that it is possible, it has never happen i ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    If there hasn't been a 100% turn out is that PRINCIPLE or EVIDENCE? I listen to the Judges and feel sorry for the country. They are so ineloquent and the less said the better.

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    I can see the confusion this is causing. Both definitions are in fact, correct i.e. Over-voting can be said to have occured
    1. If the number of ballots in the ballot box exceed the number of ballots allocated for verified v ...
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  • Justice Kpeggah 10 years ago

    NO NO NO!!! Your second definition is absolutely wrong. It is not how many registered voter. It is the turn-out. If 100 registered but only 80 came to vote and 80 ballots were issued as should be then it is over voting if 99 ...
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  • KT 10 years ago

    He is not wrong at all....It is the parties agents who are responsible to make sure that they check the ballots issued verses the ballots cast in the box. That's how they can detect the first definition at the polling station ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Precisely the point I have been trying to make. And thanks for defending my name too. Much appreciated.

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    My dear friend "justice Kpeggah" as you prefer to call yourself, we are indeed looking at two sides of the same coin. You need both the head and tail to make the coin, one definition of over-voting is not exclusive of the oth ...
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  • Adante 10 years ago

    Paul, there is no confusion! Afari Gjan has actually just killed the NDC/EC/Maham's presidency!

    The wjole issue before the supreme court is the credibility of the elections. So if the EC boss says in court that he does not ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    This is a court room and don't be deceived by the spin put on things by others. You should follow the whole statement or answer provided by the chairman of the EC. It is not that he does not know the true definition of over-v ...
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  • Appletus 10 years ago

    They must make a living! By the way, do you know that lawyers are buried face down at prone position? A friend pokes fun at them that they bury them that way because of their lies.

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Apletus, you have made my day! I see, so after 'twisting things' they cannot 'face up' in death. Hah ha ha!!!

  • kk 10 years ago

    You are right. I think both definitions amount to over-voting. All that the petitioners are asking is that over-voting as defined by more ballots counted than actual ballots issued to voters at a polling station is an irregul ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    KK, You are quite right in the request of the petitioners but first we must establish that whichver definition is used, "there was over-coting".

    The next step would be for the justices or the court to examine the imoplica ...
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  • Stoway 10 years ago

    Why is Baffoe Bonnie worried about Gyan's decision? Is it going to support the no-case situation for his people the petitioners?
    He should keep his view to himself and voye against the respondents when the time comes.

  • OGYAM 10 years ago

    SOME ARE EXPECTED TO DIE BEFORE VOTING DATE. SO WHERE FROM THE 105% TURN OUT AT MANHIA CONSTITUENCY?

  • KOGYAM58 10 years ago

    GOOD, THAT CONFIRMS THAT THE WHOLE ELECTION WAS FRAUGHT WITH SERIOUS IRREGULARITIES THAT CANNOT JUST BE WISHED AWAY.

  • seek n find 10 years ago

    This is funny. Even Class 1 pupil will know where u are coming from. Dr Gyan, it is obvious just accept your mistake and stop wasting our time with this ...... Please, Ghanians deserve some respect.

  • KOGYAM58 10 years ago

    IF YOU CANNOT DEFINE WHAT OVER VOTING IS TO GHANAIANS AS EC BOSS THEN WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE AS A COUNTRY.
    AN INTELLECTUAL LIKE YOU STILL STRUGGLING TO COVER THE INDEFENSIBLE FACTS BEFORE THE SC.
    ACCEPT THE HARD FACT THAT Y ...
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  • Owura Ntim 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan knows they rigged the votes so cannot even define over voting what a shame. Bastard

  • Kwabena Gyam 10 years ago

    Over voting is not defined by Afari Gyan sincerely. This is where the universal definition of over voting must be applied. When ballots cast are more than what is issued or the number of votes exceed the number of registered ...
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  • Queen 10 years ago

    Over-voting occurs when the number of votes cast exceeds the number of registered voters OR when the number of votes cast exceeds the number of ballots issued to voters

  • georgio Amano 10 years ago

    afari gyan is block headed, he can not explian what over voting is.

  • Efo Kwaku 10 years ago

    This is clear that Mr Djan strategically planed to rig the elections for ndc,if a whole EC can't define over voting then he is useless and can not be trusted .

  • KT 10 years ago

    Why insults? He is not a party agent to determine how many ballots issued verses how many ballots cast. To him as a commissioner the only way he can determine over voting is when the ballots cast exceed registered voters. Sim ...
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  • Ataa 10 years ago

    No I disagree with that definition: If number registered to vote is 200 and only 100 showed up to vote (issued ballots) if after counting we have 150, even thoug it is less than the 200, it is still over voting. This clearly ...
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  • TRUTH 10 years ago

    OR NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS

  • Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

    IF A WHOLE ELECTORAL COMMISSION IS CONFUSED ABOUT OVER-VOTING THEN REALLY THIS 2012 ELECTION RESULTS IF FALSE AND RIGGED!!!

    CAN'T BELIEVE BEFORE THE ELECTIONS AND BY NOW HE AFARI GYAN IS NOT ABLE TO DETERMINE WHAT OVER VOT ...
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  • okukuseku 10 years ago

    Justices are expected to probe further for clarifications on statements and positions of witnesses in order to form an oppinion for their written judgement.It is seriously wrong to be emphatic on a statement in open court and ...
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  • BLACK-RED 10 years ago

    HE IS DOING HIS JOB AND IF YOU THINK HE IS PRO NNP JUDGE THERE IS PRO NDC JUDGES LIKE ATUGUBA SO HE ATUGUBA CAN COUNTER BONNIE BUT HE CANNT COS BONNI IS EXPOSING THE TRUTH FOR WHICH I PRESUME ALL THE 9 JUDGES ARE LOOKING ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    You are right my friend: Nobody can be fooled here, and that includes Justice P.B. Bonnie. To allow Afari Gyan to lie his way out will be tantamount to allowing him to question our intelligence!!

  • Salifu 10 years ago

    Nobody is clear in their minds what over-voting is, except Mr Know-all know-zilch-all Bawumia !!
    In his tiny WaleWale mind, blank space means over-voting, foreign material in ballot box means over-voting. If "His Excellency" ...
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  • Karim 10 years ago

    Salifu,read carefully before you jump to conclusions. Afari Gjan has in effetct killed the NDC/Mahama/EC case.
    He is the EC boss, and if he is not clear about overvoting then he has just sacked John Mahama from the presidenc ...
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  • Tom 10 years ago

    Who lied to you brother?
    He is rather winning the case

  • Karim 10 years ago

    NDC/EC losing their case.

  • Karim 10 years ago

    Finally, the last straw that broke NDC/EC/Mahama back has been put in place. If the EC boss sates publicly in court that he is not clear about overvoting is, then how can he then claim the election was transparent and fair wi ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    If you are not clear what this overvotting is?then you dont deserve to come and give witness.This is all what we are talking about. OVERVOTTING.HAHA wen it is going, it is coming.

  • Tom 10 years ago

    You and Afri Gyan who is stupid?
    Learn and stop this misinformation.

  • afari gyan is corrupt 10 years ago

    afari gyan big liar and you would be exposed

  • Tom 10 years ago

    Check yourself first.

  • afari gyan is corrupt 10 years ago

    go to hell and die

  • KWABENA ASARE 10 years ago

    I CAN'T BELIEVE AFARI GYAN, HE IS A REAL SELL-OUT. I DO NOT BELIEVE A DOCTOR LIKE THE EC COMMISSIONER CAN BE SO IGNORANT ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF OVER VOTING. HE CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH ANYMORE. THE LIKELY SCENARIO WILL BE FOR HI ...
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  • km 10 years ago

    If Afari Djan is saying he does not have a clear understanding of what over-voting is, then He should tell us how he arrives at % won by presidential candidates. Is it by total votes cast or by registered voters.?

  • Efua 10 years ago

    Last time I asked why Ghana as a nation have too many stupid lawyers and leaders,and one fool was asking me if I have a lawyer or someone in the government. Just look at Afari Gyan this is a man we have put the nation and our ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    What would you say, when the only thing you must avoid is the truth?

  • Tom 10 years ago

    The definition by the second respondent is right, because when the number of votes does not exceed the number of registered voters that can not constitute over-voting. Dr. Bawumia should cross check his fact.

  • Ananoea 10 years ago

    The definition of over voting is simple and straight forward.
    Since not every registered voter will be available to cast his or her vote due to deaths, illnesses, journeys, refusals or any other adverse factor, one cannot u ...
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  • kb 10 years ago

    that is exactly what Bawumiah is talking about

  • Yeabr3 _Mo 10 years ago

    Justices like Baffoe Bonnie are the ones Akufo Addo and company are banking on to gain power in this country. If he knows better than Afari Gyan,then perhaps he should take off his robe and mount the witness box! What has a 1 ...
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  • Efua 10 years ago

    I registered before I left Ghana,that's it mean that the polling station where I register have 100% ballots in the ballot box is not over vote?

  • Yeabr3 _Mo 10 years ago

    To vote,then how can we talk about a 100% turn-out? Remember that people,those resident outside Ghana were allowed to vote by proxy. Therefore if you made proper arrangements with the EC, to have someone to vote on your behal ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Is Dr. Afari-Djan trying to say if 40 people registered at a polling station and 30 turn up to vote on a voting day and the votes cast exceed the 30, say 35 then the situation is not called overvoting? i Think he is not a ser ...
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  • Tom 10 years ago

    That is why is said learn Kofi, Had A.G not told NPP to go court would they have brought this so-called over voting thing?
    In npp's earlier pleading you didn't tell the man that there was over voting somewhere.

  • osei yao 10 years ago

    Justice Baffoe Bonnie has to deal with the facts before him, and not waste his time speculating whether a registered voter died before the elections or was unavailable to vote.

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    You've hit the nail right on the head. There's no where in our laws where definition of overvoting refers to those so-called pink sheet.

  • Adante 10 years ago

    To suggest ambiguity in the definition of over voting does not help NDC/EC case!

    Everything about this case goes to the credibilty of the election!

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    Oh, what a big liar! This is sickenning to note; NDC and Afari-Gyan have been exposed, big time! Now folks will understand what I've been saying all along, that Afari-Gyan is a liar! He's told the Ghanaians electorate one thi ...
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  • Di Nokware & Di Asempa 10 years ago

    Dear Folks
    From the utterances of a whole EC Boss (Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan), all I wish to say is: "OMG - TRUTH IS FINISHED IN GHANA."

    If the EC Boss was and has not been clear in his mind on such a definition, WHAT definit ...
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  • Balawos Galore 10 years ago

    Corruption, Daylight Robbery and Tribalism will tear the Country apart if we are not careful as a nation.

  • Akans Prophecies 10 years ago

    Afari-Djan is too arrogant ! He is teaching the pannel judges what he wants them to know, showing Ghana what he wants them to see and telling the whole world what he wants the world to hear. He is wrong but he has no sh ...
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  • JUSTICE 10 years ago

    WHY SHOULD THE EC WAST OUR MONEY FI TISBOSS HAS NO CLUE ABOUT ELECTIONS?AND YOU CALL HIM ELECTORAL COMMISIONER?SURPRISING....

  • kb 10 years ago

    You see i said Afari Gyan would lie. If he cannot explain what over voting is then what kind of training did he give to the POs and EOs? Your net is waiting to trap you soon

  • Kofi Sarkodie 10 years ago

    So the Electoral commission bye-laws do not state what over-voting is, but then in December 2012 some constituencies had their results annulled due to over-voting. I wonder what criteria they used in those places where they a ...
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  • K9 Lead Vendor 10 years ago

    "Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
    Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
    Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
    Macbeth

  • Kofi Sarkodie 10 years ago

    This is an apt description of the toss-up garbage planning and process in that hell-hole.
    And the man in charge is a "Dr".

    Tweaaa

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    I am so sorry that a whole EC boss is not sure what over voting is. I rest my case. He just wants to tell a lie but thank God we are all watching the case on the face of our televisions. My goodness! Afari Gyan does not know ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan has refused to say the TRUTH concerning what OVER VOTING is. By opting for the vague definition given by the respondents just to appease them, he has helped the judges by making it easier for them to declare the PE ...
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  • policy 10 years ago

    good job

  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    Maybe I missed something. You are right.
    However, I will not characterize Dr, Afari Gyan as lying. He is on a HOT seat, and could not think straight. His answer is on record now.

  • tiger shark 10 years ago

    One will think church Folks would do things decently.Some People in church would drop a butto, a fake coin instead of a coin in the collection
    basket.Do we therefore throw the whole collection a way ? Can we blame the Pastor ...
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  • Concern Ghanian 10 years ago

    I DONT CARE WHO WIN, I CARE HOW!

  • K.K. 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN NO LONGER DESERVES TO BE EC BOSS IF HE CAN NOT INDICATE WHAT OVER VOTING IS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS AND ALL THE CREDENTIALS HE CLAIM TO HAVE IN GHANA AND ABROAD. I WONDER HOW PEOPLE CAN SELL THEIR CONSCIENCE. DOES HE ...
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  • Concern Ghanian 10 years ago

    AFAEI GYAN, I WISH YOU DO YOURS DIFFERENT

  • ADAM SOULE-MAN 10 years ago

    HOW CAN AFARI GYAN SAYS HE CANNOT DEFINE OVER VOTING AS IF HE DOES NOT AQUAINT HIMSELF WITH THE ELECTORAL RULES OF GHANA.
    DOES HE MAKE THE RULES ALONE.SHAME ON THIS IDIOT

  • Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

    Woaaaa look! What sort of leadership in the country is that? EC director doesn't know what "over-voting" is? I give up!

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    This Afari Djan is a bigot and self centered individual who wants to be lord over all Ghanaians with that Doctorate title after his name. How can he be EC boss since 1992 and can't define what over voting means? What is he ...
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  • fred 10 years ago

    How can u know over voting when some part of ur brain is blocked by SMOKE.
    Afari tilapia is a disgrace

  • KWAAH AGYEI 10 years ago

    So is that all you could do with your PHD to help mother Ghana? You are a big disgrace.

  • Patricia Kwarteng 10 years ago

    if Dr. Afari Gyan doesn't know or rather to put it in a more desirable tone "not sure of what over voting is" then wahala dun come Ooooo...what would we as electorates define it?

  • ECOMINI 10 years ago

    There are 14 supreme court judges in Ghana. 9 are sitting on the election petition and are the only ones who should vote on the petition case. Then at the end of the court session 8 voted for the petitioners and 4 voted for t ...
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  • ********** 10 years ago

    I cannot wait to have this old KWAKU ANANSE cross examined by the petitioners council.
    How can a whole EC not know what over-voting is? more so when he has supervised elections in Ghana for the past 20years?!! This is fuckin ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    If Dr Afari Gyan is pretending not to know what over voting is; then 2012 election was really rigged.

    I had respect for him but now I am disappointed in him (Afari Gyan).
    It means if the Presiding Officer gives many ballo ...
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  • Thinker 10 years ago

    It's hard to believe if this man is actually a doctorate from Brong Ahafo. He is such a disgrace to BA and he should be arrested for lais and be verified for his qualification if he cannot understand what over voting is.

  • yaw 10 years ago

    matemehu kill africa dream febuary seventh ninteen fifty three.four years before i was born.sinse then i have no peace.

  • I Know EC 10 years ago

    If you stop drinking ATEMUDA and stop Smooking weed and Cigaret like Okusei you will begin to get things clearer, Mr confused Dr.!!!!!!!!!I have known you and your deported American brother from your HAACHO Residence before y ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    WE HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO DR AFARI-GYAN, IN PART IF NOT FULLY. ANYONE WITH UMBIASED REASONING AND NEUTRALITY CAN PICK UP ELEMENTS OF LIES AND COVERUP ATTEMPTS.
    THIS CONFIRMS THAT:
    STUBBORN AFARI-GYAN IS READ ...
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  • KWABENA GYAU AMANKWATIA,LONDON 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan you are still big big liar,all ur family will die very soon

  • Zangina 10 years ago

    May be Afari Djan needs to cobble together the two definitions to give one since the two situations are both right. There is no doubt that more votes countered than registered voters is wrong so is more votes countered than b ...
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