The Electoral Commission says measures have been put in place to ensure that all the 33, 367 centers designated for the mass registration exercise would be accessible by all, especially persons living with disabilities.
Out of the two million registered persons with disability, the Commission is expected to register about 500,000 at the end of the exercise.
“Hopefully, if our Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t come tomorrow, we will all go to the centres to register. But there is one thing that I have said as an assurance to persons with disability, which is that we have put in place measures to ensure accessibility to the registration centres,” Deputy Director for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at the EC, Fred Tetteh said.
Briefing members of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations on the registration process and its associated measures, he also noted that all EC district offices have been designated for registering pregnant women, aged and the physically-challenged.
“As you know, places where we have elections as polling stations are the very places that have been turned into registration centres and all the thirty-three thousand, three hundred and sixty seven centres across the nation are going to be used.
These 33, 367 polling or registration centres have been divided into five and that is what we call the phases.”
In an earlier statement signed by the Acting Director of Public Affairs, Madam Sylvia Annor, the EC had explained that people who find themselves in some listed categories are expected to visit the district offices between the hours of 7:00 am and 6:00 pm from Thursday, July 2 to August 6, 2020, for their registration.
While all registration centres will be made accessible, “applicants who wish to visit the district office for their registration can download and print the registration form 1A and guarantors form in colour from the Electoral Commission’s website.
The applicants must then fill in their details and present the form to the registration team to facilitate the registration process.
The Electoral Commission has, however, asked prospective applicants to present a valid passport or a Ghana card to prove eligibility in order to register.
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