General News of Friday, 12 June 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comEC sued again over compilation of new voters registerEC Chairperson, Jean MensaThe Electoral Commission of Ghana headed by Jean Mensa has once again been slapped with another lawsuit challenging its decision to compile a new voters register. Also, the suit aims at challenging the EC’s decision of ruling out the use of the birth certificate and the voters’ ID for the compilation of the new voters register. This is not the first suit to hit the EC following its decision to compile a new voters register as the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is currently in a stiff legal battle with the electoral body over the same issue. A declaration that the Electoral Commission’s decision to compile a new register of voters is inconsistent with and a violation of article 45 (a) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana. A declaration that regulation 1(3) of the public elections (registration of voters) (amendment) regulations, 2020 (C.I.

Source: GhanaWeb June 12, 2020 17:37 UTC