A civil society organisation is calling on the Electoral Commission (EC) to resolve issues regarding duplicate identity numbers captured in the recent voters' registration exercise.
Care For Free and Fair Elections, Ghana (Care Ghana) believes these anomalies, if allowed to exist may lead to confusion in the upcoming December polls.
Describing the situation as a threat to the elections, CARE Ghana argued that the delay in resolving the development affecting almost 2,000 applicants "tells the EC's level of commitment delivering a free, fair and transparent election.
"This poses an enormous threat to the assurance of a peaceful and credible
the elections come 7 December 2020," the group said.
Executive Secretary of CARE Ghana, David Kumi Addo in a press release explained that this may lead to the disenfranchising of some Ghanaians, a move which will not enure to the benefit of the electoral process as a whole.
In the September 13 statement, the group revealed that multiple attempts to get the EC to fix the problem are yet to yield results.
"Sharing ID numbers supposed to be unique and distinctive to an applicant with multiple individuals depicts a degree of incompetence.
"However, EC has not shown any interest in correcting this anomaly which potentially can mar the sanctity of the upcoming general elections," Care Ghana reiterated.
The Electoral Commission (EC) at the end of the exercise on Thursday, August 6, 2020, had registered a total of 16,663,699 voters.
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