We Don’t Need New Voters’ Register; Upgrade Current One – Bono East NDC Tells EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday, December 17, 2019, asked Parliament to approve ¢444,846,663 for the compilation of a new voters’ register prior to the 2020 general election.

However, Deputy Treasure for the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bono East Region Madam Fati Abubakar Zibila Bandawor alias Ama Benyiwaa has said that compiling a new voters’ register is unnecessary and that an upgrade of the current one is more reasonable.

She said if the Electoral Commission’s reason for the compilation of a new register has to do with the high rate of manual verification, then the problem is with the software, not the voters’ register.

Madam Fati Abubakar speaking in an interview with this portal in Techiman said, “It has nothing to do with the voters’ register, it is the software instead and all you have to do to make it run efficiently is to refurbish the software”.

“If these systems are refurbished and we observe the conditions under which they work, we will not get high rate or incidence of manual verification,” She stated.

Source: Kwadwo Ofosu Baffoe (K.O.B)