Electoral Commission Printing Excess Ballot Papers To Rig 2020 Polls - NDC

The Opposition Party NDC has accused the Electoral Commission of scheming to rig the December 7 polls. The main opposition claims the Electoral Commission is printing excess ballot papers instead of the 5 percent extra ballot papers required for the polling station. The National Campaign Coordinator for the NDC Professor

Joshua Alabi said one of the seven printing houses undertaking the exercise, Assembly Press, has printed about 150,000 surplus ballots aside from the 5 percent. “By convention and practice, the Electoral Commission prints an extra 5 percent of the total registered voters in each polling station to cater for spoiled ballots but what

is surprising this time is that the Electoral Commission is rather printing in addition five percent of the total registered voters per constituency in the total number of ballot papers to be printed. What this translates into is that more ballot papers are being printed in excess of the five percent extra ballot papers required for the

polling station. From the ballot statistics from the printing houses as coming from the EC, we NDC have analyzed the figure from 13 regions and observed that there is an excess of over 150,000 ballot papers been printed beyond the extra 5% required.” “This happened at the Assembly press which is one of the contractors printing the ballot papers and we NDC also found out

that the Assembly Press is printing additional ballot papers at a different location on the blind side of the agents of the political parties. The NDC is completely upset with the irregularities as the MD of the Assembly Press who is an appointee of the President was an aspirant who contested the NPP 2020 parliamentary primaries in the Nkawkaw constituency and the Convener of Let My Vote Count Alliance, a pressure group of the NPP.”