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”.
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Dr Robert A. Baffour, Vice President of the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) disclosed this while speaking at the University of Ghana Business School where NIIT Ghana graduated diploma students recently.
He spoke on Ghana's internet infrastructure which he codenamed 'Project Ghana.'
Dr Osei Kofi Darkwa, President of Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC), who made the observation at the opening session of a Healthcare and ICT Needs Assessment Stakeholders’ workshop in Accra on Tuesday, said the country’s health system had not fully responded to multiple health challenges confronting it.
The verification process, he said, was yet to receive a concrete decision from the EC and explained that even though the two — the registration and the verification — complemented each other, the EC would go ahead with the registration, with the hope of receiving more funds to do the verification.
“If done well, biometric voter registration can ensure a verifiable voters register, in the sense that a person’s name can occur only once in the register and at a specific polling station, thereby ensuring that that person can vote only once under his or her name,” Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan said.
He said the benefits of ICT could be applied to facilitate socio-economic development to bring enormous benefits to Ghanaians. Government therefore, remained committed to promote digital literacy in the country to ensure that the people reap full benefits of ICT usage.
Mr Iddrisu made the observation when the Ministry of Communication took its turn on the Meet-the-Press series organised by the Ministry of Information.