Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) says it hopes to capture between 50,000 to 70,000 new voters onto the electoral roll in its upcoming mop-up voter registration exercise scheduled to take place from Thursday, August 1 to Saturday, August 3, 2024.
The three-day exercise is meant to give an opportunity to persons who turned 18 years after the recent Limited Voter Registration and those who could not register previously to have their names captured in the poll book.
Addressing a news conference in Accra, Samuel Tettey, a Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Operations, said the Commission had designated its 268 District Offices, 26 Public Universities, and 41 Prison Centres across the country for the exercise.
Additionally, he said, the exercise would be done only online, adding that the Commission had engaged Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) extensively to ensure stable internet connectivity during the exercise.
The EC, between May 7 to 29, 2024, carried out a Limited Voter Registration Exercise to capture all eligible voters onto the electoral roll ahead of the December 7 general elections.
