Twenty-three persons aspiring to become president of Ghana have picked up nomination forms to contest in this year’s December 7 presidential elections, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission,...
Twenty-three persons aspiring to become president of Ghana have picked up nomination forms to contest in this year’s December 7 presidential elections, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission,...
The Electoral Commission is planning to roll out a mock voting exercise for first-time voters aimed at reducing the percentage of spoilt ballots in the upcoming elections. Election watchers and...
The Convention People’s Party(CPP) Youth League, has asked Ghanaians to “check for the incorruptibility of Presidential candidates” who scramble for power in this year’s elections before...
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman of Afigya Kwabre South Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, is calling on the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Police to grant political parties...
The National Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Portuphy, is convinced the incumbent has won the elections already, but says members of the party would have to avoid...
Abraham Lincoln stipulated that " democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people". Countries like Ghana who adopted this system of governance must place the ordinary...
Yes! It's time! Ghanaian politicians who avail themselves to every ghetto in the length and breath of this country only when there's an impending elections as in the current state of the nation with...
On 7th December 2016, the eligible Ghanaian electorates will go to the polls to choose the politicians they so wish to steer the country to the right direction. Although it has been documented that a...
The Peoples National Convention (PNC) has said it will not hesitate to go to the Supreme Court if the Electoral Commission (EC) fails to review downwards its excessively high filing fees for both...
The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected suggestions that it has deliberately set the filing fees of both Presidential and Parliamentary nominations for the 2016 elections at a high figure to...
On Tuesday 6 September 2016, I had the perfect opportunity to listen to a staff member (name forgotten but surely a Spokesperson for the Electoral Commission) give answers to questions posed to him...
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it is hoping to reduce spoilt ballots during the upcoming December 7 elections to below one per cent by simplifying the voting process. The high number of...
A Senior Governance Adviser to the United Nations has observed that heightened tension that characterise political discourse in the country is the result of the nature of the governance system. He...
Political parties have been advised to educate their party agents on proxy voting ahead of the December 7 general elections to avoid possible chaos. Head of Research and Programmes at the Centre for...
The Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) has expressed apprehension over the Electoral Commission’s (EC) handling of the ongoing proxy voting application process. The Alliance said the provision in...
The outcome of elections in Africa have generally been characterized by disputes, violence and in some cases civil unrest. Undoubtedly, this has affected economic growth and most importantly, denied...
The Electoral Commission (EC) will on Friday and Saturday, exhibit the voters’ register of the newly registered persons whose names were deleted from the electoral roll for using the National...
The electorate or voters are essential stakeholders who must keenly promote peace before, during and after the December 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. This is our motherland. Ghana is...
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it will start accepting applications for transfer of votes from one constituency to another ahead of the December 7 polls. A statement signed by Eric Kofi Dzakpasu,...
