Politics of Monday, 10 August 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comNPP resurrects ‘no verification no vote’ stance for 2020 electionsThe NPP says only voters who are verified biometrically should get to vote during the December pollsThe governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it is confident in the new biometric voter management solution acquired by the Electoral Commission and hence has revived its 2016 "no verification no vote" stance for the December polls. Ahead of the December 2020 presidential and parliamentary polls, the NPP said on Monday, August 10, 2020, that it will take the same stance - this time because the party is highly confident in the new system. “As we move on towards the election, we will be having a lot of IPAC [Inter-Party Advisory Committee] meetings and it will be appropriate to push for no verification no vote,” John Boadu said at the press conference. The NPP General Secretary said the old biometric machines were unable to verify voters properly in 2016, resulting in a high number of manual verification on voting day. Manual verification, John Boadu argued, was largely unreliable and a potential source of dispute as it tends to comprise the integrity of the elections.

Source: GhanaWeb August 10, 2020 19:11 UTC