The new register of electors for the 2020 elections will be established by EC

The new register of electors for the 2020 elections will be established by EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will soon establish a new register of voters for the 2020 general elections.

The decision to establish a new register of electors was made at the conclusion of a stakeholder meeting organized under the auspices of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) on Wednesday, March 27, 2019.

In 2015, the Election Commission (EC) rejected the proposals for a new voter register, calling it an "unconvincing" appeal.

He concluded this after holding a forum following a heated national debate on the register after the opposition neo-patriotic (NPP) party at the time had claimed to have evidence suggesting that he had been compromised with 76,000 non-Ghanaian voters.

A number of demonstrations took place and some even became violent. A group of experts has been set up to gather stakeholder views on whether or not to create a new registry.

The late judge V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe was the panel chair and recommended that EC not replace the voters' register.

Stakeholders have now agreed that a new registry should be established.

They also agreed that the EC will hold the district level elections and referendum on the same day in the last quarter of 2019.

In a statement signed by the President of the EC, Jean Mensa, she explains in detail what the body will do before the general elections of 2020.

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