Politics of Thursday, 13 February 2020Source: 3news.com3 political parties storm out of EC technical meeting over new voters’ registerJohnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDCOfficials of three political parties have walked out of a technical meeting with the Electoral Commission (EC) on the back of disagreement over compilation of a new voters’ register for the December general elections. IT representatives of the various political parties were invited by the EC Thursday to thrash out outstanding issues regarding the controversial new voters’ register the EC is seeking to create for the polls. The three parties claimed the agenda for the meeting was to discuss the challenges with the Biometric Voters’ Register and Biometric Verification Devices but it turned out the EC had a different agenda. The EC, they said, rather went ahead to discus with them modalities on how to compile a new voters’ register which they have opposed. New voters’ register is a done dealDespite criticism and resistance against the compilation of a new voters’ register, the EC has said it will go ahead with the exercise.

Source: GhanaWeb February 13, 2020 16:52 UTC