I think it had to do with publicity. The aged are by their radio and television sets all the time. The younger ones go off to work and may have missed the media announcements on the exercise.
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It will therefore be necessary to for the EC to come out and address the issues and assure Ghanaians of peaceful and credible results for the elections in Ghana.
We do not have to take things for granted and wait till the last day for pandemonium to reign at the polling centers.
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He said just the first out of three phases of the e-government project is completed, but already, the Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department runs on it and it helps them to decentralize government budget and accounting administration by giving regional the budget offices access to the central data network back in Accra for real time reporting purposes.
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Mr. Anthony Oppong, Effutu Municipal Director of the Commission who made this known at the third Inter-Party Dialogue Committee in Winneba on Tuesday said the names of the offenders together with those from other parts of the country had been send to the Police headquarters for further action.
He said a total of 47,014 people registered in the area during the just ended Biometric Registration Exercises against 43,000 in the previous register.
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Information obtained by the Ghana News Agency on Saturday indicates that the EC SMS platform seeks to expand registered voters access to the Provisional Voters Register through their mobile handsets at the lowest possible network rates.
Read more: GH: EC adopts mobile checking of voter registration details