Source: newsthemegh.com
In response to the impending limited voter registration drive, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has provided legal support for a lawsuit brought against the Electoral Commission.
The NDC claims that the EC made the choice to limit the exercise to its district offices in order to provide the electoral management body the ability to rig the 2024 elections and suppress votes.
It said that this was the reason it had teamed up with four other political parties to sue the EC over the test.
The EC said last month that it will start a limited voter registration drive in its district offices around the nation from September 12 to October 2.
On Thursday, the Electoral Commission was sued by the NDC and the other four political parties in the Supreme Court over the process.
The Great Consolidated Popular Party, All People’s Congress, Liberal Party of Ghana, and Convention People’s Party (CPP) are the other four parties.
The parties contend that the EC’s choice to limit voter registration to district offices could deny many eligible voters the opportunity to exercise their right to vote in open elections.
The parties have submitted a request for an interlocutory injunction to prevent the EC from carrying out the previously announced limited voter registration drive until the substance of the dispute has been resolved.
Sammy Gyamfi, the NDC’s communications officer, said in an interview on Thursday in Accra: “You know why they want to do this? The reason being that by limiting the registration centers to their district offices, they will be able to rig the election by gerrymandering in addition to suppressing votes.
The primary players in the process, the political parties, are able to hire, train, and deploy polling agents who live in that catchment area when registration is done at the electoral area level.
Therefore, they will be able to contest that registration if they are registered but do not live in that region, he said.