The Electoral Commission’s (EC) exhibition of the voters’ register will begin today, Friday, September 18, running till Friday, September 25, 2020.
The eight days’ exercise would give voters the opportunity to verify their personal details ahead of the general elections in December.
The exercise would also help the EC rid the register of unqualified persons ahead of the impending polls.
The EC provisionally registered 16,963,306 people at the end of the biometric voters’ registration exercise which ended on August 9, this year.
To ease the process and proposal decongest the exhibitions centres, the EC has introduced a short message service (SMS) platform to enable registered voters to check their registration details.
The shortcode, 1422, will be activated had been and it will work until Friday, September 25, 2020.
To check registration details, voters would have to text their voter ID card number to the shortcode.
Meanwhile, the various political parties have called on their members to go and check their names and make corrections or ask for inclusion of their names or object to the inclusion of names of unqualified persons on the voter roll.
By: Mina Ekua Hayford / awakenewsroom.com