Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), said the party’s Legal Directorate would explore pursuing legal avenues to dispute the Electoral Commission’s decision to host the next restricted voter registration at its district offices.
The Commission announced this week the start of a restricted voter registration period for eligible Ghanaians who turned 18 after the 2020 registration period, as well as other eligible voters, from September 12, 2023, to October 2, 2023.
The NDC claims that if the EC is permitted to proceed with its proposals, the majority of new voters would be disenfranchised.
Mr Tamakloe said his team will argue the exercise’s legality.
“The EC is applying the same law to only limit the registration to the district offices. We will explore all the available legal channels to ensure that we will get an outcome that will allow the elections to be more decentralized. We want to ensure that all our MPs are duly protected within the confines of our law, and we will definitely do that,” the Director of Legal Affairs for the NDC said.
On August 21, seven political parties in the nation expressed dissatisfaction with the Electoral Commission’s (EC) plan to limit the next voter registration activity to its district offices.
According to the political parties, such a move would deprive a lot of Ghanaians of the right to vote.
Instead, they urge the commission to start the process of holding the exercise in the voting districts.
The seven political parties have so pledged not to rest until the EC has registered every eligible Ghanaian of voting age.
According to the EC’s Chairperson, Jean Mensa, the exercise will take place at all of the EC’s 268 district offices around the nation.
