General News of Thursday, 23 May 2019Source: Graphic.com.ghEC's online voter registration challenged at the Supreme CourtEC Chairperson Jean Adukwei MensaA Ghanaian based in Daboya in the Savannah Region has dragged the Electoral Commission (EC) to the Supreme Court over its decision to allow online voter registration in the limited registration exercise. He is also arguing that the EC’s decision on online registration is discriminatory to first-time voters and rural people. The suit, filed at the Registry of the Supreme Court in Accra Thursday, has the Attorney-General as the first defendant. He further wants the apex court to hold that the EC’s decision is unreasonable and an arbitrary exercise of its discretionary power in relation to voter registration. According to the statement of claim, the EC, by that approach, excluded eligible voters in the remaining 184 districts who did not take part in the 2018 referendum from the limited voter registration exercise.

Source: GhanaWeb May 23, 2019 19:18 UTC