The Electoral Commission (EC) will exhibit the voters register at all polling stations throughout the country from Monday, August 9, 2010 to Sunday, August 15, 2010.
A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the EC, Mr Christian Owusu-Parry, and issued in Accra last Friday said both registers compiled from 2004 to 2008 and the one compiled in June 2010 would be on display during the one week exercise, which starts from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
The exhibition of the voters register is considered to be a very important exercise, given the perception by political actors that the register is bloated, hence the need for it to be cleaned up.
The EC is, therefore, urging the general public to take advantage of the exhibition to check their names in the register and help clean it of all errors.
“The exhibition of the voters register is an opportunity for all registered voters to check and confirm their participation in the register”, the Commission noted in the statement.
It reminded members of the public that only persons whose names appeared in the register were eligible to vote in public elections and, therefore, urged all registered voters to endeavour to check their names during the exercise.
The statement gave the assurance that persons, who had genuine voter ID cards but whose names were inadvertently omitted from the register would have the opportunity to apply for the inclusion of their names in the register.
It said the exhibition exercise was intended to clean the register of any errors, adding, “Registered voters can, therefore, ask for wrong spelling of names, wrong photographs and wrong ages and sexes to be corrected”.
The statement appealed to the general public to volunteer information on deceased relatives and other unqualified people whose names appeared in the register so that their particulars could be expunged.
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