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  • Geringe Beteiligung bei eVoting-Test in Genf

    Bis 2003 soll im Kanton Genf ein erstes Mal per Internet abgestimmt worden sein. So planen es die Verantwortlichen des Genfer E-Voting-Pilotprojekts. Der grosse Testlauf von Anfang Juni stieß jedoch nur auf eine geringe Beteiligung.

  • GH: 10.5 Million Prospective Voters Registered In Biometric Exercise

    The Electoral Commission (EC) had registered 10.5 million prospective voters at the end of the third phase of the ongoing biometric voters registration exercise.

    According to a source at the EC, with that provisional figure, the EC was on course to achieving a successful biometric voters registration, which ends on May 5, 2012.

    The EC projected to register 13 million voters before the beginning of the compilation of the biometric voters roll.

  • GH: 13,628,817 voters registered; 1m face deletion – EC

    The Electoral Commission of Ghana registered about 13,628,817 voters during the biometric voter registration exercise with over one million likely to be expunged because they do not have valid codes.

    The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, told Parliament in an in-camera session on Friday that the total number will shoot up after the biometric exercise takes place in Akuse. The area was exempted from the exercise as a result of legal issues over whether the EC had the mandate to bring Akuse under Greater Accra Region. The Supreme Court ruled that it should remain under the Eastern Region

  • GH: AEP provides leadership in the use of ICT for Election 2012

    African Election Project (AEP) is providing leadership in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Election 2012.

    This is being done with the launching of Ushahidi platform – Ghana Votes (ghvotes2012.com) to map incidents around the Biometric Voter Registration.

    A statement issued in Accra on Thursday and copied to the Ghana News Agency said AEP is providing the leadership as part of its project “Enabling Peaceful, Transparent and Credible Elections in Ghana Using New Media Platform” funded by Strengthening Transparency Accountability and Responsiveness in Ghana (STAR-Ghana).

  • GH: Biometric Takes Off

    A pilot biometric registration of eligible voters in some selected parts of the country commenced last Saturday, with officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) giving the trial exercise a pass mark.

    The four-day operation is intended to guide the EC to identify shortcomings and make amends before the actual registration which is scheduled to take off towards the end of March.

    The exercise, which ends tomorrow, is being carried out in two centres of each of the 10 regions of the country.

  • GH: Biometric Verification is on

    Government and the Electoral Commission have finally yielded to both domestic and international pressure and agreed to compliment the biometric voter registration with biometric voter verification at the polling station in order to enhance the integrity of the 2012 elections.

    However, investigations undertaken by The New Statesman suggest that the ruling party, which has still not come to terms with biometric verification, is shifting the responsibility of funding the process to Ghana’s ‘development partners’.

  • GH: Biometric verification pilot exercise ongoing

    The Biometric Voter Verification pilot exercise is currently underway in all 10 regions of the country.

    The two-day testing of the process which is being organized by the Electoral Commission (EC) is taking place in some selected polling stations across the country.

    The exercise according to the EC is aimed at ensuring the biometric machines are properly tested to avert any technical difficulties on voting day.

  • GH: Biometric Voters Register For 2012: No More Rigging Of Elections

    It looks like the era of double and multiple voting by Ghanaians are over. The voters register used for the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections is to be scrapped.

    To be scrapped as used in the previous paragraph means that Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) will not use the 2008 voters register. An advert by the EC currently running in the media states in part that the EC “intends to use biometric technology to replace the existing Voters Register that was compiled in 2004 (emphasis ours).

  • GH: Biometric voting system must be verifiable - Akufo-Addo

    The flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the Electoral Commission of Ghana to put in place a verification system in addition to the biometric registration system which Ghana would be using in the 2012 general elections.

    According to Nana Addo, adding a verification system to the biometric voting process would help check cases of double voting, impersonation and several other electoral malpractices that crop up during elections.

  • GH: Biometric voting system must be verifiable - Nana Addo

    The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that the fifty million cedis needed by the Electoral Commission for the verification system of the Biometric Voter’s register should not be an excuse by the EC not to implement the system.

    According to Nana Addo, adding a verification system to the biometric voting process would help check cases of double voting, impersonation and several other electoral malpractices that crop up during elections.

    He made the remarks in an interview with Citi News from Germany where he attended the “Africa Conference 2011”, as the Keynote Speaker on the theme: “Africa’s Role Model? Democracy and Elections in Ghana”.

  • GH: Don’t stampede EC to implement biometric voting'

    Dr. Michael Kpesa Whyte, a Fellow of the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, has warned that there could be dire consequences for the nation should individuals and interest groups pressurise the Electoral Commission into implementing biometric voting for the 2012 elections.

    “We should not rush them into doing things that will cost the nation...Come election day, if we don’t take time we might actually plunge the country into total chaos and confusion, if we only depended solely on [the biometric voting]” he told Joy News on Friday.

  • GH: E-Voting System at University of Cape Coast 2011 SRC Elections

    Students of the University of Cape Coast have shown that with the appropriate measures, Ghana could successfully begin using the electronic system of voting to end the perpetual allegations of vote rigging and post-election violence.

    The students demonstrated this when they used the E-voting system during their 2011 SRC elections which unlike previous years ended without any post-election controversies.

  • GH: EC ready for biometric registration

    The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan has announced the date for the commencement of the much-anticipated biometric voter registration ahead of the elections in December.

    Speaking at a media encounter to brief journalists on the EC’s preparedness for the exercise, the EC boss gave the assurance that the biometric register will be ready for use in the December polls.

  • GH: EC records 12,000 to 15,000 double registration

    The Electoral Commission (EC) recorded between 12, 000 to 15,000 multiple registrations at the end of the biometric voter registration exercise, Mr. Safo Kantanka, Deputy Commissioner in-charge of Finance and Administration has said.

    He said the EC was still compiling the registration figures nationwide and also cross checking to find out areas of multiple registration and accidental multiple registrations.

    Mr. Safo Kantanka said this at the opening of a one-day workshop in Koforidua on Thursday, to educate political party executives on the in-built integrity of Ghana’s electoral process.

  • GH: EC spells out qualification criteria for biometric voter registration

    The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday spelt out qualification criteria for participation in the biometric voter registration exercise, fixed tentatively for the first phase from March 24-April 2, across the country.

    Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, EC Chairman who spelt out the criteria in Accra said a prospective voter is required to provide their exact date of birth, their current residential address as well as their hometown address.

    The applicant is also required to show evidence of eligibility to register by providing a birth certificate, passport, baptismal card, a driver’s license or a national health insurance card, the national identity card or the existing voter’s identity card.

  • GH: Electoral Commission begins biometric registration

    The Acting Director of Public Affairs, Electoral Commission (EC), Christian Owusu Parry, has disclosed that the commission will start the biometric voter registration in March, 2012.

    The introduction of the biometric registration in 2012 elections, according to the commission, was to help check double registration and eliminate ghost names in the voters’ register.

    The EC would acquire the biometric voter equipment by February 2012, Parry Owusu said.

  • GH: Electoral Commission must reconsider issue of biometric registration and verification

    Representatives of political parties and religious leaders in the Upper West Region have called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to reconsider its position on the issue of biometric registration and verification.

    This is because they believe it was one major way of ensuring free, fair and transparent elections in 2012.

    This was contained in a communiqué signed by 10 representatives of the various groups at the end of a seminar at Wa.

  • GH: Government gives EC GH¢ 50 million for biometric voters register

    The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Dr. Kwabena Duffour has stated that government has released funds to enable the Electoral Commission implement the new biometric voting register as the country looks to advance the cause of democracy through transparent, free and fair elections.

    The minister made this revelation on the floor of parliament when he presented a supplementary budget to the House worth GH¢1,463,123,559.

  • GH: Koforidua Senior High School goes high tech

    The Koforidua Senior High School, also known as KOSEC, in the Eastern Region, has led the way forward, in electronic voting during student elections held there.

    This was made known by the Headmistress, Mrs. Matilda R. Appiah, at the school's 20th Anniversary celebration, which was under the theme, 'Maintaining Our Academic and Social Record in the face of Daunting Challenges,' over the weekend in Koforidua.

    Apart from the school, arguably the first institution in the country to introduce biometric voting, the Headmistress stressed that the students of the school also access their terminal reports via the internet.

  • GH: Pilot Biometric Exercise Successful - EC

    The Electoral Commission (EC) has said the just ended biometric registration pilot exercise was successful.

    The nationwide exercise was piloted in some selected districts to enable the EC establish challenges that may arise during the major one in March.

    The EC’s Public Relations Officer, Christian Owusu Parry, said the identified challenges will be addressed ahead of the major registration exercise next month.

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