The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has announced a two-day mop-up voter registration exercise for eligible Ghanaians who for several reasons were unable to register in the mass registration which ends today, Thursday, August 6, 2020.
The mop-up exercise will be undertaken at the various district offices of the EC across the country on Saturday, August 8 and Sunday, August 9, 2020.
According to the acting Director of Public Affairs of the EC, Mrs Sylvia Annoh, who made this revelation said the decision to do a mop-up after the main registration was to ensure that no eligible applicant was left out of the national exercise.
About the Mop-up exercise
During the sixth edition of the Let the Citizens Know series held on July 27, the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, indicated that the commission would do a mop-up exercise at selected areas when the need arises.
She had said the exercise would not be a blanket one because some registration centres had a lower population of registrants.
Also, the EC chairperson stated that the commission would rely on information from its field officers in deciding on centres that would benefit from the mop-up exercise.
However, Mrs Annoh notified that eligible applicant turnout had reduced after they presented themselves at the various registration centres had reduced in the last phase of the exercise across the country.
“We have studied the situation and seen that most of the queues at the registration centres have diminished. In some of the centres, our officers sit the whole day and register only 12 persons,” she said.
The EC Public Affairs director further urged eligible applicants who were not able to register during the mass registration exercise to take advantage of the mop-up and register to be captured on the EC’s register.
Responding to a question on how the registration would be done at the district offices, she said applicants would be assigned to polling stations of their choice within the constituency.
