The John Agyekum Kufuor administration superintended the passage into law in 2006 of Act 699 to allow citizens, including dual nationals, to be registered abroad and to vote from abroad. The EC set up a committee in 2011 which produced some modalities but has since gone to sleep on the project. They have contended that it discriminatory to allow only Ghanaians studying abroad and staff of Ghana’s Mission/Embassies abroad to be registered and vote from abroad. It had earlier pleaded to be given time to produce documents on its implementation plans, but failed to do so after a two weeks grace period. The case was originally filed in 2016 but withdrawn ahead of the elections and refilled after the elections.

Source: GhanaWeb December 17, 2017 21:11 UTC