It said the electronic devices still had the records of the number of people who voted at each polling station.
Reacting to claims by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the EC had instructed its officials to set the machines to zero to destroy evidence which could aid the party to challenge the results of the elections at the Supreme Court, the Public Relations Officer of the commission, Mr Christian Owusu-Parry, said the machines had not been reset.
Ghana has scored another first in her democratic credentials by successfully using biometric system to verify over 11 million people on the same day.
A few weeks ago, Ghana completed a successful election using the most advanced technology available to worldwide.
The 2012 election marks Ghana’s successful sixth election since returning to Constitutional rule in 1992.
According to the group: “if Ghana is to continue in the use of Biometric Verification System for voting, then the Electoral Commission must procure adequate Biometric logistics and associated protective measures and backups to forestall malfunction during polling.”
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The principle of "No Verification No vote”, was basically agreed upon by all the various parties with the EC. But, with the verification came several problems including the inability of the machines to detect the identities of some voters, prior to voting.
To this end, Rlg Institute of Technology, a subsidiary of Rlg Communications, had been contracted by government to train the teachers in the nationwide project. The leading Ghanaian ICT firm will also provide the teachers with laptops for the first phase of the project.
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