The Electoral Commission (EC) has reiterated that its outfit is highly committed to providing concrete and accurate figures as the December polls draw closer.
This comes after the EC received backlash from the public owing to errors in the data published for the ongoing limited voter registration exercise
Meanwhile, the EC has acknowledged the errors and subsequently instituted measures to correct specific infographics. It assured the public that the data of registered voters are intact and have not been tempered.
In an engagement with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other stakeholders, the EC Chairperson Jean Mensa assured the masses to remain resolute and repose confidence and trust in the Commission.
Jean Mensa explained that the team was using CorelDRAW for the graphics meaning it was a manual process. She added that since they realized it was giving problems, they have resorted to using Microsoft Excel to do the tabulation, eliminating the errors.
“Whilst I do not hold brief for the team, because they were relying on Coral Draw to come up with these pie charts and graphs and so on, they were doing it manually. And so what we have done is go back to the drawing board and use Excel.
“And so we may not have those colourful graphs, and the focus should not be on that because the application that was being used was not able to do accurate tabulations, so you will find that people had to do it manually.
“So the Coral Draw has been abandoned, and Excel has been applied. But again, I say this because we are a listening Commission and intend to build trust. You come back and let the people know what went wrong and what has been done,” Jean Mensa explained.