The Electoral Commission has mandated its District Offices nationwide to rent generators to guarantee an uninterrupted limited voter registration exercise scheduled for today, May 7 to May 27, 2024.
On Monday, 6th May, 2024, Jean Mensa Chairperson of the Electoral Commission assured Ghanaians of their readiness to ensure a smooth registration exercise even with the power challenges.
“We are trying hard to… we’ve made arrangements to ensure that we don’t have challenges because of dumsor. What we’ve done is to have all our district offices rent generators so that in the event where there’s dumsor, that can kick in.”
She added that in the event of unforeseen circumstances, it will switch to “offline” mode, where voters will be registered and their details will be stored on a pen drive for onward transfer into the EC system.
“However, should there be the unexpected, we would switch on to the offline and by offline it means the voters will be registered and their details will be put on a pen drive and that will be copied in our offices when the light returns, so the registration will not be disrupted.”
Today’s limited voter registration exercise aims to register approximately 623,000 first-time voters across the country in all 258 district offices of the commission. Also, the exercise will take place at an additional 785 centres to accommodate those who may find it difficult to access the district offices, including 25 public universities.
The exercise which starts today is expected to end on 27th May 2024.
