Elections 2024; We never promised to release provisional voter register a week- EC
The Electoral Commission has debunked claims that it accepted to release a revised version of the 2024 voter register in one week after the Inter-Party Advisory Committee ( IPAC) gathering on Tuesday, October 1.
According to statement signed by the EC’s Deputy Chairperson for Operations, Samuel Tettey, on October 8, said the Commission denied statement
by the National Democratic Congress ( NDC) that it had vowed to give the revised register following the meeting with all political parties contesting the December 7, elections.
During IPAC’s previous gathering omTuesday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had declared
that its Functional Executive Committee had accepted the EC’s obligations to provide the modified and updated version of the 2024 Provisional Voter Register for review within a week.
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Nevertheless, the EC explained that its Chairperson, Jean Mensah, had instead said that the revised register would be provided to political parties and uploaded online within a couple of weeks or sooner.
” At no point did the Chairperson indicate that the register would be released within one week. the. statement emphasised.
Here is EC’s full statement.
RE. REVISED PROVISIONAL VOTERS REGISTER TO BE RELEASED WITHIN TWO WEEKS
The Electoral Commission (EC) has taken note of a statement by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to the effect that the EC promised to make the revised Provisional Voters Register (PVR) available to the Political Parties within a week of the IPAC meeting as follows:
“The Functional Executive Committee of the NDC has deliberated and decided to accept the EC’s promise to release to political parties, the corrected/updated version of the 2024 Provisional Voters Register for scrutiny within one week.”
For the records, the Chairperson of the EC indicated during the televised IPAC meeting that the Commission would provide the Political Parties with the revised PVR and upload it online within two (2) weeks or earlier.
“Nowhere in her statement did the Chairperson indicate that the revised PVR would be made available within a week.”
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