Few months to the November 7, general elections, stakeholders in the election are still in disagreement over having a credible electoral roll. 

For the most part, the bone of contention has been the list of people who registered to partake in the election using the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card. 

Although the Electoral Commission (EC) said Tuesday that it had expunged the names of some 56,000 NHIS registrants, pro-opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) claims the list the Commission is using a forced one. 

The Commission was ordered by the Supreme Court to delete the list of NHIS registrants upon a petition sent to the Court by Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako questioning the constitutionality of using the NHIS cards to get onto the electoral roll.

A political activist and programmes director with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Micheal Abbey, speaking on Joy FM's Ghana Connect program Friday, thinks the over indulgence in the argument over a perfect register is moot. 

"Is it the case that we would want a perfect register getting to election? Obviously, there is going to be issues with the register. In developed countries, there are still issues with elections, but the question would be to what extent are those issues with the register going to affect the result of the elections?" Mr Abbey quizzed.  

He said it is neither here nor there to question the capacity of an institution which has been running elections for years to say they are incapable of handling this year's election.

However, he admitted that "we need to have a credible register that captures all eligible Ghanaians to vote."

Mr Abbey charged the LMVCA to help the cause as the Supreme Court indicated that cleaning the electoral roll is a shared responsibility adding, "I don't want my vote to be neutralised by someone who illegally got on the register by using the NHIS card to register." 

He therefore, pleaded with the convener of LMVCA, David Asante to "please help the cause".

But, Mr Asante said the group is not making a case to be applauded as they have already told Ghanaians there was no way the EC can present the exact list of the number of people who are NHIS registrants prior to the release of the "forged" list of 56,000 people. 

"Our activities are not geared towards discrediting the EC but in any case, there must be a watchman who watches over the watchman...we were expecting the EC never to alter the document they supplied the plaintiffs and the Supreme Court. However, when you go to the Commission's website, the format and arrangement and everything is different."

Mr Asante believes Ghanaians must be concerned with the list submitted and published by the EC and the errors thereof than calling on the LMVCA to produce their said list which they claim has more than what the Commission is reporting.

"We don't have a constitutional mandate to supply the EC with names of people who were not captured in the list released by the Commission," Mr Asante said. 

This did not go down well with the Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, George Loh who was also on the program.

"You don't need a constitutional mandate. When you go out there to identify your grandmother who has passed on and for that reason, her name must be deleted, where do you derive your power from?" Mr Loh quizzed rhetorically. 

He said they are happy with the work LMVCA are doing but Ghanaians would be delighted for the group to come out and with their identified number of other people whose names must be expunged from the registered and provide the evidence. 

Mr Loh said, if the EC fails to act accordingly when they [LMVCA] have a genuine case, then the group have every reason to go to court otherwise "it is interesting that LMVCA is trying to dodge the responsibility of assisting the EC to authenticate the group's position that there are many more Ghanaians who are not supposed to be on the list."