General News of Saturday, 26 December 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comElection 2020: NCCE to research into increasing rejected ballotsJosephine Nkrumah, Chairperson, National Commission for Civic EducationThe National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) says it will, as a matter of urgency, commence research into why there was an increase in the spoilt ballots during the December 7, 2020, presidential and parliamentary elections in the country. “The Commission is going to take steps to find out what really contributed to this very large number of rejected ballots because in 2016, it actually went down but in 2020 there is a spike in the number of rejected ballots. “So the Commission is worried about that and we will do further research into what went on,” she indicated. The just-ended 2020 elections saw an increase of 313,397 ballots which were rejected and this representing a total of 2.333 per cent of total votes cast. With this, the rejected ballots can best be described as being declared the ‘third force’ in Ghana’s multi-party elections.

Source: GhanaWeb December 26, 2020 06:11 UTC