The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has identified discrepancies between the provisional voter's register data, the information provided by the Electoral Commission (EC), and the figures reported by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

This comes after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency of the Central Region accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of allegedly collaborating with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to unlawfully inflate the voter's register in the area.

At a press conference in Ajumako, the NDC’s Communications Officer, Galahad Alex Andoh, claimed that over 3,000 names had been illegally added to the register.

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He demanded that the EC provide an explanation for how these names came to be included in the register.

CODEO has thus called on the Commission to take immediate steps to address these issues.

Programmes Director at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) in charge of Election Security, Paul Mensah Abrampah, expressed hope that today's IPAC meeting would resolve the challenges.

“In electoral processes, we can’t have everything 100% okay. The readiness of the stakeholders to resolve the problems identified is what makes the process move forward. We have identified the challenge. We are not happy that there are challenges, but we are happy that there are steps in place to resolve them. The challenges are that there are discrepancies in the data, in the register as compared to what the EC gave and what the NDC also had,” he said.

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Mr Abrampah explained that the EC acknowledged errors in compiling transfer data and integrating it into the current register.

He believes that after the necessary corrections are made, the register will be accurate.

“CODEO also have our results. I was just reading the exhibition results and it highlighted some of these challenges. However, the challenges highlighted are not challenges that cannot be resolved. It is one thing identifying the challenges, presenting them to the authorities to resolve and another thing for the authorities to accept to resolve. I am happy the challenges have been identified and the EC has accepted responsibility.”

Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission has rejected the NDC’s request for a live broadcast of the IPAC meeting taking place on September 6, 2024.

The EC stated that while it is committed to ensuring free, fair, transparent, and peaceful elections, it will not accept the proposal for a live broadcast.

Based on this position, a Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Mustapha Gbande, says the EC has demonstrated zero tolerance for transparency.

According to him, the errors found in the voter's register are not mistakes but rather, a “deliberate, fraudulent, and illegal manipulation of the voter's register with the sole intention to rig the elections.”