General News of Friday, 7 August 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.com2020 elections: EC ends voters registration with over 16 million Ghanaians registeredplay videoDr Bossman Asare, Deputy Chairman of Corporate Services at the Electoral CommissionThe biometric data of 16,663,669 Ghanaians has been captured by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the just ended compilation exercise of a new voters register. The Greater Accra region has especially lost some grounds in percentage terms from 21.34 % to 20.8% of the total registered. The compilation of a new voters register by the Electoral Commission (EC) commenced on June 30, 2020 and ended on August 6, 2020 across all the districts in the country. Although the EC projected registering 15 million eligible voters, the latest provisional figures show the electoral body has surpassed its projections. Additionally, the Commission has inaugurated a voter registration adjudication committee to help expunge the names of multiple registrants from the voter register.

Source: GhanaWeb August 07, 2020 13:52 UTC