The United States Government is offering $1.2million to Ghana to help in organizing a peaceful election in December. The amount channeled through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been made available to the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) to help in the enhancing the Centre’s efforts at ensuring a peaceful and credible elections in December. A statement issued by the U.S Embassy in Accra said the grant will be used to support the Ghana Election 2012 Project to be undertaken by the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) which was established under the auspices of CDD-Ghana. The USAID-assisted CDD-Ghana project is aimed at enhancing transparency, credibility and equal opportunity in the electoral process and ensuring that the final results are legitimate and accepted by all parties. Under the project, CODEO will independently monitor and assess activities leading up to the December polls, deploy trained observers to polling stations across the country to observe voting and counting of ballots and independently tabulate polling station results to enable CODEO to confidently verify election results. The statement quotes Cheryl Anderson, USAID Ghana Mission Director who signed the agreement with Prof. Gyimah-Boadi, Executive Director of CDD-Ghana, as saying “the American people are delighted to assist in further deepening and strengthening civil society involvement and participation in Election 2012.” Ghana goes to the polls on December 7 to elect a President and some 230 Members of Parliament.