Hohoe Municipality Registers 13,464 Eligible Voters

Hohoe, Aug. 24, GNA-A total of 13,464 qualified applicants were registered under the 13-day limited voter registration exercise in the Hohoe Municipality by the close of the process.

It recorded 4,521 applicants, who have just turned 18 years, which constituted 13.5 percent of the total eligible voters registered with 1,821 and 7,122 applicants being categorized into 19 years and 20 plus years respectively.

Mr David Acheampong, Hohoe Municipal Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) briefing the Ghana News Agency said a total of 8,524 were provided with photo identity cards (ID) while the remaining 4,940 who completed the exercise alright but without passport-size photograph are yet to be provided with IDs.

He said those applicants would be taken care of under the mopping up exercise, which would be announced nationwide.

Mr Acheampong said EC documented 5,615 eligible voters in the 2006 limited registration exercise for the Local government elections, which recorded percentage increases of 58.3 over that exercise.

He believed that this might have been responsible for the shortages experienced during the recent voter registration exercise because their projections were swallowed by the multitude of eligible voters who swarmed the registration centres.

Mr Acheampong said double registration by applicants was not reported but three applications were challenged for nationality.