This follows the EC’s review of the entire process, a month after the registration exercise ended.
The limited registration exercise was conducted to offer Ghanaians who have attained 18 years since the last registration exercise, as well as those who have never registered before to do so.
Confirming the latest development on Eyewitness News, the Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Dr Serebour Quaicoe said the discovery was made by a team from the EC, political parties and civil society groups.
“In the course of the registration, we were complaining of some people engaging in the multiple registration. So as at now, we are dealing with a team made up of officials at the EC, representatives of the political parties and some civil society organizations. We are still investigating and as at now, we have close to 24,000 people who have engaged in double registration. Some of them registered in 2012, 2016 and 2019. It means whenever we open for registration, they register.”
2019 limited voters registration
The Electoral Commission had said a total of about 1.2 million new voters were registered under the limited voter registration exercise.
Out of that number, the registration of 8,500 new voters were challenged.
The NDC had prior to the exercise rebuked the EC for attempting to limit the exercise to only the commission’s district office.
The commission subsequently expanded the centres to cover additional centres following pressure from the NDC.
A total of 1,573 electoral areas have been designated nationwide to cater for persons who were located at hard-to-reach areas.
The commission used a Voter Management System and Biometric Voter Registration Machines to register prospective voters.
Some centres recorded network challenges that stalled the process and sparked some confusion.
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