Ghana’s electoral system 3rd best in the world

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  • mamobi boy 10 years ago

    Educated fools destroying Ghana.. CORRUPT DIRTY OLD MEN.. HELL FIRE AWAITS YOU ALL.. SUCK UR MOTHERS FOOLS..

  • Joejoe 10 years ago

    IT IS A TRU FACT THAT THE EC HAS OVER 3 MILLION NAMES ON OUR ELECTORAL REGISTER TO CLEAN. THE 3 MIL IS ALMOST IN VOLTA, NORTHERN, WESTERN, BA, UE. STOPP DISTURBING OUR EARE AND CLEAN THE REGISTER

  • MAX 10 years ago

    empty barrels

  • William 10 years ago

    The tragedy of the incapacity to appreciate good things coming out of the African continent, promoting same and mentoring from these sources, will continue to keep us in a blissful whirlwind of unmotivated governance and stag ...
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  • Destiny. 10 years ago

    That may be the case, but you corrupt dirty and blind men at the helm of affairs has made the system a joke. If you are not corrupt, prove it. People both within and outside Ghana are sick and tired of you all. We need a purg ...
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  • Uaw 10 years ago

    The best and most resilient EC in Africa. If our electoral system wasn't good, we would be killing each other after elections like most countries in Africa do. Human beings are not robots. If u steal from them, adrenaline rus ...
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  • OSEI 10 years ago

    WE THINK WE HAVE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD BUT THE AVERAGE DECENT GHANAIAN IS SUFFERING. OUR CAPITAL IS THE MOST STINKING, BUT IF YOU ASK GHANAIANS THEY WOULD TELL YOU IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL. OUR ROADS, ENERGY, AD ...
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  • Koo Baah 10 years ago

    I totally agree with you

  • jAMES mANU 10 years ago

    A FOOL LIKE YOU. YOU TELL ME ANY ONE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHERE NOOE IS SUFFERING? AMERICA, UK, CANAD, CHINA, INDIA, BRAZIL MALASIA, GERMANY ALL WITH GOOD ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND PROGRESS STILL HAVE THEIR CITIZENS SUFFERING. ...
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  • Destiny. 10 years ago

    Insulting OSEI is not the right thing to do. You need to apologise to him. He has a right to express his view without being called a FOOL.
    Suffering can be relative. A man who wants a BMW but gets a base model Daihatsu (just ...
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  • concerned la 10 years ago

    You are a nut case find somewhere to stick.your sorry ass. Who is clean dont annoy us. We dont fight because of our natural tendencies to resolve things through dialogue, but frankly nobody knows how much we can take of this ...
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  • a.k, amsterdam 10 years ago

    Kwadwo, you can't fool anybody we all saw what happened at Supreme Court. Shut up and preserve the little respect that is left for you."Aboafon" because of you Ghanaians are suffering.

  • African Patriot 10 years ago

    It is unbelievable that such comment deserved to be reported through Ghana. This statement do have any credibility because there is no evidence. A person just made a comment without any proof and it is printed.

    Instead an ...
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  • Adanko 10 years ago

    Ghanas EC. is 3rd. best because they are perfect in stealing. The figure 27 can turn
    27.zero and later becomes 270.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Even if it is 3rd best in the world, it means it is still not the best and we need to strive for the best.

  • Ghana paa nie 10 years ago

    One of the most rotten electoral system in the world is Ghana.Pay people and sell their votes.They are suffering and should suffer more.How can Ghanaians vote for ndc at least 10% would have done.Ide be keke and still sufferi ...
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  • Okyesco 10 years ago

    Yenka nni wakyi a wose agoro yi yede

  • if the lone crusader 10 years ago

    Kojo go home with your concience and dont insult our interligence .we remember mr onyinah as compared.and what good has ever jj created i tell you history will never spare you guys .the eve .pepe.bono.project we know so awaye ...
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  • Odehyue Kofi 10 years ago

    Apee too.Who made this ratings?Do you think Ghanaians are fools?Afari Gyan is the number one thief in the country.He massaged figures for NDC to win.He has confessed this during the hearing of the 2012 election petition heari ...
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  • mensa 10 years ago

    gayan and Ghana election are joke and one big fraud

  • Daavi 10 years ago

    YOU CAN COMPARE YOURSELF WITH DWARFS AND THINK YOU ARE TALL IT`S GOOD FOR YOU,BUT YOU CAN GO TO MALI AND CHECK TO KNOW IF YOU ARE STILL TALL!!!!!

  • Nana Yaw Sunshine 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan has done a great service to the nation and deserve commendation. But most ungrateful people will still find reason to abhor him. We have peace which means a lot if nothing.

  • concerned la 10 years ago

    Fool

  • PATRICK AWUAH 10 years ago

    I VOTE IN THE UK AND I KNOW HOW THE LEVEL OF EFFICIENCY THEIR SYSTEM IS. INFACT I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT GHANA'S IS THE BEST! I HAVE ALSO VOTED SEVERAL TIMES IN GHANA AND KNOW HOW EFFICIENT AND TRANSPARENT OURS IS.
    DR. AFARI DJ ...
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  • Efo Kwaku Canada 10 years ago

    I also vote in Canada and I tell you that our system is corrupted and we don't have independent body to regulate our elections systems because PNDC /NDC guys that JJ Rawlins puts them in places are the ones running the electi ...
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  • candido 10 years ago

    Ghana is the best. .As an American citizen and do vote,ours is better. In America the zoning systems and minority winning elections which sent president. Al Gore. to court.Ghana. is simply and good. devoid of
    Complicated. st ...
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  • concerned la 10 years ago

    Kwasia do you compare voting in the uk to gjana. In the uk your ballot paper comes through the post for starters, do you see many people waiting in line hell NO and stones dont keep your turn in the lines SO THERE

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    AKUFO ADDO WILL LOOSE 2016

  • King 10 years ago

    Talk is cheap

  • FACT 10 years ago

    An electoral system where the Electoral Commissioner cannot define over-voting cannot be described as the 3rd best in the world.
    The electoral system needs to be reformed to bring it up to speed in terms of it being function ...
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  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    NONSENSE! TOTAL NONSENSE. Keep praising it, because your pocket is full today.

  • Pee 10 years ago

    Any foolish person can get up and say anything because majority Ghanaians are not educated or have SHORT MEMORIES.Where is the source of the research?Any idiot working in electoral commission can talk.

  • Efo Kwaku Canada 10 years ago

    Who said that ? Since 1992 NDC has not win genuine elections ? Because Ghanaians are wise enough that is why outsiders considered our blessed nation Ghana as peace country and our elections as fair but you know sincerely that ...
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  • kukubu 10 years ago

    Why not the best?better don't provoke people.we all know how weak our electoral systerm are.

  • KING JAMES VERSION 10 years ago

    He is very gready,Instead of allowing next person he is insisting.His motive is to get all his campaign money so he want to win and get profit out of it..HE THINK WE ARE FOOLISH.His wiseness has made him to be fool cus of bad ...
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  • JOSEPH 10 years ago

    SHAME TO A SYSTEM BEING THE 3RD BEST WHY NOT THE BEST. GHANA NEED TRANSPARENCY, INTENSIVE EDUCATION AT ALL LOCAL LEVEL ESPECIALLY GHANA YOUTH POPULATION. GHANA NEED DECENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT SYSTEM FULL OF TRNASPARENCY KEY DRI ...
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  • OKOROMANSA 10 years ago

    GHANA'S ELECTORAL COMMISSION RATED 3RD AFTER INDIA AND CANADA CAN NEVER BE TRUE.
    DUE TO ITS HUGE OULATION, I CAN'T SAY MUCH ABOUT INDIA. BUT I LAUD INDIA BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE PATIENCE TO COLLATE THEIR ELECTION RESULT ...
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  • Kofi Jata 10 years ago

    It is who run it.

  • fantastic Bosco 10 years ago

    Though may not be factually accurate but Ghanaians must to this call as one of the best in the world

  • apuuu 10 years ago

    Is not true Mr Yaw Opoku ,Kwadwo Afari Gyan is so corrupt he is the one who choose who to be President and who go to Parliament who win what this Afari Gyan has taken Ghana hostage by sending corrupt Politicians to Parliament ...
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  • ISSA ABONGO 10 years ago

    THIS IS THE TWEAAAAAA ELECTORAL COMMISSION.

  • Gyeeda, Sada, Subah, Woyome 10 years ago

    Any stupid idiot can tickle himself and laugh on matters of national interest. How could Ghana's electoral system be 3rd best when the head of the EC cannot even define over voting, ballot stuffing and the like. This is why w ...
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  • jerry 10 years ago

    STOP TELLING US LIES AND INSULT OUR INTELLEGINT WE KNOW GAYAN AND GHANA ELECTION ARE TOTAL JOKE

  • The mask 10 years ago

    In view of the issues that arose during all the presidential and parliamentary elections since 1992 we can confidently say that anybody who says our system is the 3rd best must be inebriated.

    1992 -- The Stolen verdict. No ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    WE SAY YOU A LYING . WHY SCARED OF NEW REGISTER ? A CORRUPTION COUNTRY LIKE OURS ? NO NO MR GYAN YOU DON'T LOVE GHANA .

  • Jacob 10 years ago

    What we have is a 419 electoral system within which Afari-Gyan can't even define over-voting. It is shame for a member of that 419 to describe it as being the 3rd best in the world. Is it better than the US system where resul ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    LET US DESTROY IT GHANAIANS AND HEV WON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY .

  • "ASIEDUA" NKETIA 10 years ago

    Please, will somebody stop these political mad statements and lies not to deceive the youth. With the depressive dumsor and criminally corrupt filthy system, how do you think you are the 3rd best.

    Any one who is proud of ...
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  • Kay 10 years ago

    The Ghanaians will wake up from theit sleep....the lives of crooked politicians and civil servants will be miserable.

  • Frank Teddy Washington 10 years ago

    U guys are kidding , ryt?

  • Kwabena Manniie 10 years ago

    Rubbish perception and foolish statement from idiots. So where are countries like England, US, Germany and the others. White man will continue to ridicule us. Corrupt country and always begging for money to squander without a ...
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  • Uaw 10 years ago

    If our electoral system wasn't good, we would be killing each other after elections like most countries in Africa do. Human beings are not robots. If u steal from them, adrenaline rush will make them fight even at the peril o ...
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  • kwesi ogyam 10 years ago

    True Afarigan, but sorry it doesn't work.

  • Remove Indemnity Clause 10 years ago

    Tweaaa apuu.

  • Asafo-Adjei Mandela junior 10 years ago

    what nonsense is this...which organization conducted d research?

  • Gada 10 years ago

    All we r saying we want new register

  • Jahsh 10 years ago

    Clean your voters register filled with 2 million ghost voters. Mother fucker.

  • C, L & Share 10 years ago

    Listen to the clowns in govt again!!!!
    Tickling themselves and giggling.

  • johny 10 years ago

    Educated fools!

  • GOODMANN 10 years ago

    APUUUUUUUUTOOOOOOOO FUCK OFF

  • kakabo 10 years ago

    We are always the best in everything . Even in Africa, our electoral system does not come anywhere close to that of South Africa and Bostwana and yet we go about talking as if we are in heaven. Loose fancy talkers is all we h ...
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  • Sebastian 10 years ago

    laughable hehehe,so whoever conducted that survey mean our electoral system is better than UK ,Germany,France ,the united states etc ,keep dreaming .

  • king jaja 10 years ago

    Gyimiii papa panin sua nyansa wate Kwasia like u

  • DUKE 10 years ago

    There are serious issues to be tackled by leaders of this country and propagandists are busy deflecting attention from them for their own selfish reasons - stomach politicians and supporters, prefer to come up with crap like ...
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  • fredsaid 10 years ago

    Top 20 Richest People In Ghana For 2013

    1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brother of the current President of Ghana. Only Ghanaian to own a private jet.

    2. Alfred Mahama -$1.3 billion./ Businessman, brother ...
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  • GHBoy 10 years ago

    so this guy is saying that our electoral system is better than the ones used In the US and the UK!
    am only asking bcos i cant really remember the last time the US or the UK killing them selves bcos of elections. ok what abou ...
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  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    "We have to thrive to be the second best"

  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    A senile old man thought he had won an election, cooked up some dodgy evidence and went to court. Tried to tarnish Dr Afari Gyan's hard won reputation, an man who twice supervised an election that this old man's party won. So ...
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  • Tk 10 years ago

    Then the rest are killers

  • Asembebadabi 10 years ago

    There is no provision in the current Ghana's Constitution which categorically stipulates that the Ghana Supreme Court can unseat a sworn in President.
    Can somebody point it out to me. Because of the lack a provision Atuguba ...
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  • OPOKU MANU 10 years ago

    FUNNY....WHERE DO NORWAY,DENMARK,SWEDEN,GERMANY,AUSTRIA,HOLLAND STAND IF GHANA IS THE THIRD?

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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Do you grade yourself? Third best in Africa or the world? Liar. Ghana can't be at even 50th in the world. No computerisation of the electoral system?

  • Fosu 10 years ago

    Tweaaaaa for the where, that Ghana is the third best ec apuuut))))

  • TANII BA! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    Tweaaa! Who said that Ghana's electoral system ranks among the best in Africa, when Afari-Gyan is the head and always using fraudulent means to help his favorite pparty, the NDC win elections? That's not true. See the suffer ...
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  • dave2468 10 years ago

    How? Are u telling me Ghana's electioneering system is better than that of the USA?.

  • more 10 years ago

    really? well at least, dere is always peace nd understanding after elections in GHANA. we go take am like dat.

  • jack 10 years ago

    Stop fooling yourself and get it together. The country is too corrupted to have a clean electoral system.

  • ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

    very stupid people

  • Otwenua 10 years ago

    In your head.

  • ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

    idiot oldman

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Nana....cocain..

    Where are your credentials...banchi university lawyer....

  • Basty Basty. New York 10 years ago

    Our electoral system has been the best in Africa and among the best in the best in the world it just the emergence of the drug addicted trouble maker all die be die yen akanfoc tribal man Akuffo Addo and majority of his idiot ...
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  • CAO 10 years ago

    ghana

  • Attaa Coffie 10 years ago

    By whose standard?

  • Kwasi 10 years ago

    You have had your money alright but if there is judgement day Fake Pastors like Adjin Asare and Duncan Williams will be before our maker for judgement because of supporting this mess

  • pablo 10 years ago

    Ak, I don't think you are in Holland. The insults are just too much. Were becoming ...

  • yee 10 years ago

    oh yee. means bragging

  • sikido 10 years ago

    I.dont.no.how.some.people.are.stupid.in.Ghana.thanking.if.not.God.Ghana.

  • Nungaa 10 years ago

    Afari Djan DR who was deported from USA because of drugs is not good for EC boss he is criminal

  • Owanwanii Odumgya 10 years ago

    A fool always full of foolish ideas and talks.

  • Agya Amuesi 10 years ago

    Thief, thief! May God punish you, Afari Gyan. And be careful you don't cheat and create another problem for Ghanaians again.

  • director 10 years ago

    If it had not been Christians in the nation who pray for peace. ....how cld it be third in the world? ???

  • Boy Do 10 years ago

    But Afari

  • Gen.Mosquito 10 years ago

    Ah the EC again.adding sugar to its shit.the end result is a stinking flavour fit for pigs to die for.the EC will soon claim its the first best in the world

  • S.Y 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan wo y3 aboa paa

  • STAFORD 10 years ago

    THE PEOPLE WITH THE BEST SMILES, AND A
    HAPPY-GO-LUCKY LOOKS. Cheers !!

  • TEE 10 years ago

    AFARI DJAN YOU WILL SUFFER BEFORE YOU DIE, REMEMBER THAT PERIOD DONE

  • TEE 10 years ago

    REMEMBER THAT, BECAUSE OF HIM GHANAIANS ARE SUFFERING UPTILL TODAY, FOR PEPENI MAHAMA HE WILL PAY ALL BACK, WAIT AND SEE PERIOD

  • JB Mann 10 years ago

    Germany has the best electoral sstems in the world.

    Arguments to support my claim include: it does not take more than 20 mins to cast your vote at a polling station, poling stations are scattered all over the place, one m ...
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  • onyansa ni 10 years ago

    hypocrites ghana will turn to kenya come 2016

  • Wofa 10 years ago

    Dis one na big Lie.

  • sly 10 years ago

    apuuut))))))

  • Tony H 10 years ago

    Only the primitive people of NPP from the ashanti region dont recognize & appreciate the value this Afari Gyan man hold because refused to oint another rigged election after the 2004 k4 stolen election.

  • Tony H 10 years ago

    Only the primitive people of NPP from the ashanti region dont recognize & appreciate the value this Afari Gyan man hold because refused to oint another rigged election after the 2004 k4 stolen election.

  • Tony H 10 years ago

    Only the primitive people of NPP from the ashanti region dont recognize & appreciate the value this Afari Gyan man hold because refused to oint another rigged election after the 2004 k4 stolen election.

  • Tony H 10 years ago

    Only the primitive people of NPP from the ashanti region dont recognize & appreciate the value this Afari Gyan man hold because refused to oint another rigged election after the 2004 k4 stolen election.

  • Tony H 10 years ago

    Only the primitive people of NPP from the ashanti region dont recognize & appreciate the value this Afari Gyan man hold because refused to oint another rigged election after the 2004 k4 stolen election.