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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed caution in sharing the full range of discrepancies they've identified in the electoral process with the Electoral Commission (EC).
According to Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the NDC’s Director of Elections and IT, the party is strategically withholding some information to ensure a more calculated approach.
Speaking at an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on October 1, Dr. Boamah acknowledged that the EC had accepted three of the five pieces of evidence the NDC presented.
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However, in cases where the EC didn't accept certain discrepancies, the Commission attempted to provide explanations. Dr. Boamah emphasized that this selective acceptance is why the NDC has refrained from presenting the "full gamut" of discrepancies it has uncovered.
"That is one of the reasons – it is not strategic to provide the Electoral Commission with the full gamut of what we have,” he said.
He also raised concerns about the EC's failure to mention a specific case involving a voter named Ernest Ofori, who had effected a vote transfer.
Given these issues, Dr. Boamah reiterated the NDC's call for a forensic audit of both the voter register and the IT systems of the Electoral Commission, as he believes this is necessary to ensure transparency and fairness in the upcoming elections.
“So the PVR that we were given, if you analyse them, would you have arrived at the same conclusion? The answer is yes. As you try to rationalize after having the information, what you forget is that you are assembling what you did not provide political parties with to rationalize. Because of the coefficient of bias which is very high, there is the need for a forensic audit of the register which is being fixed.”
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