General News of Sunday, 27 December 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comMake voting compulsory in Ghana - Australian High Commissioner suggestsAustralian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory AndrewsThe Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews, has suggested that Ghana and other countries adopt a policy that place more emphasis on elections; as practiced in his home country. According to him this would be a way of dealing with the issue of voter apathy during elections. He said amongst other things that; “In Australia, we have mandatory voting so you get fined if you don’t vote so that 99 percent of the people vote. In an attempt to give reasons, he added; “what mandatory voting does is that it makes sure that vulnerable people and disadvantaged people are included because generally what you observe in democracies is where mandatory voting doesn’t exist. I think seventy-eight seventy-nine percent voter turnout particularly, when voting is not compulsory here in Ghana is very impressive.”Per data from the Electoral Commission of Ghana, the country recorded a 79 per cent voter turnout after the December 7 polls.

Source: GhanaWeb December 27, 2020 11:48 UTC