Ghana Decides: Presidential Ballot Paper Printing Begins

The Electoral Commission of African country, when per week of with success finishing ballot for the seven qualified presidential candidates within the coming elections, have invited their representatives to witness the commencement of printing ballots and testament of polls forms.

The printing was delayed due to lawsuits against the Electoral Commission and its chair.

Confirming details to Citi FM in Accra, acting General Secretary of the New superpatriotic Party (NPP), Mr. John Boadu, mentioned he would be gift for the printing exercise thus on guarantee transparency.

“Over the years we've ne'er witnessed the printing of pink sheets or blue sheets or statements of polls, each parliamentary and presidential. we have a tendency to all recognize the sort of problem we have a tendency to had in court wherever the Electoral Commission was finding it tough to grasp the amount of statement of polls that they written,” he said.

“It was thus embarrassing and that i don't suppose that we've to travel through that once more, thus we have a tendency to wrote to the Electoral Commission requesting that we should always be allowed to possess access. they need granted that request and asked that we have a tendency to bring 2 agents to observe the exercise.”

Last week, the pinnacle of Communications at the Electoral Commission, Mr. Eric Kofi Dzakpasu, additionally mentioned in AN interview with Accra-based category FM concerning the Electoral Commission’s focus to figure on the Notice of Polls and therefore the printing of the ballot papers in the week.

To additionally facilitate curb the matter of rejected ballots, he mentioned the commission’s innovation of introducing new options on the ballot papers that area unit widened black borders to separate the candidates.

Qualified candidates United Nations agency are going to be on the presidential ballot include: Ivor Greenstreet (Convention People’s Party), Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings (National Democratic Party), President John Dramani Mahama (National Democratic Congress), Dr. pa Kwesi Nduom (Progressive People’s Party), Nana Akufo-Addo (New superpatriotic Party), Dr. Edward Mahama (People’s National Congress), and Jacob Osei Yeboah (independent candidate).

The Electoral Commission has already written and commenced the distribution of the parliamentary ballots to varied regions across the country.

Although the parliamentary ballots for the Ashanti Region were rejected by the Regional Chairman of the New superpatriotic Party for not having the party’s initials at a lower place the emblem, the Electoral Commission refuted the claims, stating that the New superpatriotic Party specifically indicated their satisfaction with the emblem as processed for printing.

In a press statement free on the Electoral Commission’s Facebook page, they indicated, “We would really like to additional place on the record that it's just for the Presidential Ballot that the NPP has specifically requested that its descriptor ought to be other to the emblem, which has been done.”