Sentences with phrase «credible voter register»

A credible voter register is the foundation for credible elections.

To a get a credible voter register devoid of foreign nationals we demand that this provision should be scraped from the requirement to get registered.

Again the commisson is mute on the call for a new credible voter register and is unwilling to open up to Ghana on her plans for a credible voter register.

Again the commission is mute on the call for a new credible voter register and is unwilling to open up to Ghana on her plans for a credible voter register.

We wish to remind the EC of Ghana that the destiny of Ghana in 2016 and beyond is in their hands and all we are asking the commission to do as a matter of urgency is to Speak Now, for Ghana is waiting attentively to hear her voice on the way forward for a credible voter register.

Election is about voters electing those they want to lead them, and a credible voter register helps to ensure that those who vote are the true eligible voters, the card reader, which authenticates the voter identity, helps to make the voter register more robust and resistant to moon - light and landslide bogus figures.

According to him, the position of the Electoral Commission on the preparation of a credible voters register for the elections, which is just six months away, appears unsatisfactory in view of what it calls the lackadaisical posture by the Commission towards the electoral process.

It will be recalled that since August 2015 the Let my Vote Count Alliance as well as other well - meaning Ghanaians have collectively at different times sought for the EC to give us a NEW CREDIBLE VOTERS REGISTER; strangely, the commissioner has not given a reply to the good people of Ghana whether to do a new register, or clean the existing register.

«By her posture and utterances, the EC boss is setting the stage to deny the youth and the people of Ghana a new and credible voters register for the 2016 elections.

Not exact matches

The group's protest followed the New Patriotic Party's claim that it had uncovered thousands of ghost names in the voter's register, deeming it not credible.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

Instead, the Commission said it «will continue to engage stakeholders to ensure that a clean and credible voters» register is in place for the 2016 general elections through an inclusive and collaborative audit process.»

The opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] which is championing the course for a new register claiming over 76,000 foreign nationals are registered on Ghana's voters register which makes the electoral roll not credible joined other parties at the debate.

Until the biometric voting system is centralized, all the stop guard measures being proposed by political parties on how to maintain a credible voters» register remains impotent.

A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of article 45 (a) of the constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992, (hereinafter, the «constitution» -RCB-, the mandate of the Electoral Commission of Ghana to compile the register of voters implies a duty to compile a reasonably accurate and credible register.

According to the Electoral Commission, the setting up of the panel follows petitions it received and calls from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters» register, with others calling for an audit of the register instead, all with a view to ensuring a credible voters» register for 2016 and beyond.

Mr Boadu said the Party had conducted a comprehensive analysis on the election 2012, and identified that the incredibility of the voters register led to its defeat and therefore asked supporters to exercise patience as the quest of a new credible register is being pursued.

At pages 22 to 23 the Court continued: «Accordingly, by way of answer to issues (2) and (3) we are of the opinion that although the presence of the names of ineligible and deceased persons on the register of voters renders same neither reasonably accurate nor credible, the register is not thereby rendered inconsistent with article 45 (a) of the constitution.»

There being no credible dispute that the current register of voters was compiled under legal provisions deriving their legitimacy from the primary legal source, the entire register of voters can not be said to have been compiled unconstitutionally.»

(3) A declaration that the current register of voters which contains the names of persons who are deceased is not reasonably accurate or credible.

Following the 2014 ruling that banned the use of the NHIS cards for registration, Abu Ramadan went back to the Supreme Court this year, seeking among other reliefs a declaration that the voters» register was not credible for the polls in November.

The cost of a new credible voters» register is cheaper than the cost of violence.