The claimed proposal by the Electoral Commission (EC) to create a new voter registration using just the Ghana Card as identity will disenfranchise a portion of the electorate, according to former president John Mahama.
The former president, who is running for reelection in 2024, claimed that the EC was purposefully making it difficult for people to vote.
Speaking on Sunday, July 17, 2022, at the workshop’s concluding ceremony in the Volta Region, President Nana Akufo-Addo said that the current administration, which was in charge of numerous state institutions, including the EC, was in charge.
“The style of this administration has been to subjugate and dominate [state] institutions for parochial and partisan gain. These institutions have thus become pliant tools for the furtherance of the political ends of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and President Akufo-Addo. ”
“One such institution is the Electoral Commission, which instead of making it easy for our citizens to take part in elections, rather takes delight in making it difficult,” he said.
He claimed that the EC appears committed to disenfranchising some groups of people in our society at all costs.
“through a misguided insistence on the use of the Ghana Card as the only source of identification for a voter card.”
“How do you do this, knowing that the Ghana Card is not available to everyone who should have one?” he quizzed.
The assertion that the EC plans to create a new voter register in an election year using solely the Ghana Card as ID, however, has not been confirmed or refuted by the EC.
Read the Facebook post by John Mahama:
“The Electoral Commission, instead of making it easy for our citizens to take part in elections, rather takes delight in making it difficult. They appear determined to ensure the disenfranchisement of sections of our population at all costs through a misguided insistence on the use of the Ghana card as the only source of identification for a voter card.”
