Two Youth Organizers have petitioned international partners of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) over demands they made regarding the biometric voter registration (BVR) kits.
The two – Jude Balma of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) and Mark Ewusi Arkoh of the People’s National Convention (PNC) – had petitioned the EC to provide serial numbers on all BVR kits to be used for next month’s limited voter registration exercise.
They also demanded numbers of BVR kits to be deployed at each centre.
Petitioning under the umbrella institution Election Watch Ghana, the two are yet to receive a response from the EC.
They, therefore, wrote to the EC’s international partners, first to the First Secretary in charge of Elections at the British High Commission, to impress upon the EC to respond to the demands.
“Your Excellency, the Electoral Commission of Ghana has refused to even acknowledge the receipt of our request letter, even though the limited registration exercise is supposed to start in few days time,” the letter to the British High Commission said.
“Our request for the serial numbers is based on the established protocol for fairness and transparency.
“In fact, the release of the serial numbers to those of us at IPAC, has been the practice since 2001.”
According to the two, the situation is casting darkness on the upcoming elections and “raises our fear that the 2004 general elections is being rigged”.
They want the High Commission to intervene.
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