When is the electoral register update

What will the cost be to the council? Further will this process be independent of political interference and independently evaluated and verified? If it is then the costs will be doubled.

In short the current system has worked for decades and therefore does not need fundamental change. Indeed if the council believe serious electoral fraud has occurred in previous elections, perhaps they should produce the evidence before going ahead with this unnecessary change to electoral processes.

And finally, perhaps the money used for this process could be better used for delivering improved public services as promised last May: now that would real innovation! Is it really cheaper to buy tablets, build the back end server sofware, databases, integration systems, employ canvassers, train them, insure them, background check them, and manage them?

When will they be calling on people? During the day when most people are at work or in the dark evenings? If someone is not in, refuses to talk with a canvasser, or the 'system is down', or the canvasser enters details incorrectly, will they be taken off the electoral register and lose their right to vote?

The data that is collected - will this be shared with other government or council departments? Posting forms is done or should be done in bulk, and at reduced postal rates. It is a system that works and the costs are known and managed. Changing an established system so dramatically is dangerous. This is messing with people's right to vote. Your email address will not be published.

Our ballot papers also have security features, so any trace of new material will be clearly visible. Again, at the end of the poll, the ballots cast are cross-checked against the voters who were verified and issued the ballot papers.

This ensures that over-voting is detected immediately. Nationwide, we had no issue with over-voting at all our 38, polling stations except in Savelugu in the parliamentary election where there was one and I repeat one over-voting. The transparency of our processes from the beginning to the end makes this impossible. Ballot Stuffing cannot be done-it is impossible. We call on the Former President in the interest of our democracy to provide evidence of the stuffing of the ballot boxes by the EC.

The Police should investigate this as a matter of urgency due to its potential to derail and undermine our democracy, and lead to a lack of confidence in our systems and processes. Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, former President John Dramani Mahama has alleged that the Military influenced the declaration and announcement of the results of the election. This is also false. It never happened. Nowhere did the Military influence the declaration and announcement of results.

It is not true. The processes were widely participatory. The media, local and international observers all participated in the elections.

The results declared and announced at all the polling stations and collation centers were a true reflection of the will of the people. The Media and Observers also picked their data right from the ground directly from the 38, polling stations and the collation centers and the results were no different from what the EC declared. These networks called the election for the President before the EC declared.

We call on the good people of Ghana to disregard this allegation of the military influencing the declaration and announcement of results as it is false and untrue.

In the interest of our democracy we call on the Former President to provide evidence of where the influence by the Military occurred. We have also noted that the Former President has called the elections the worst elections. We refute his scoring. The good people of Ghana who experienced our processes are the best judges.

Their testimonies on social media demonstrated that Ghanaians were highly satisfied. Additionally, the elections have been hailed locally and globally as highly transparent, fair, credible, and inclusive.

World over, scientific methods are used to measure the success or otherwise of elections. International and Local Observers who used scientific, internationally acceptable methods to measure the quality of elections have confirmed that the elections were transparent, credible and highly successful.

Once again, we refute the ranking giving by the former president and state that, on the basis of scientific evidence the elections would go down as the best in the history of this country. It will be important to note the scientific tools used by the Former President to reach his conclusion. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, once more, the former president has accused the EC of being responsible for the violence that took place at Techiman.

We state for the records that the violence was not caused as a result of the EC or its staff. More importantly, the EC is not responsible for security as the former President sought to portray. Nowhere in our laws or in the Constitution is security one of the functions of the EC. While we sympathize with the family members of the deceased, we reject any attempt to associate the violence with us. Again, we call on the former president in the interest of our democracy to provide evidence that the EC orchestrated the violence.

In Techiman, for example, one of the radio stations asked the townsfolk to go to the Collation Center to protect the ballot for the NDC parliamentary candidate. This is what led to the chaos that ensued at the Collation Centre. Our Regional and District Officials indicated that but for the presence of the Security personnel they would probably not be here today.

In Savelugu the violence occurred at the police station. None of them had anything to do with the conduct of our officials. Therefore, to blame the EC for the violence portrays a deliberate attempt to malign and impugn on the integrity of the Commission. Whiles, we collaborated with the security agencies under the platform of the Elections Security Taskforce, our responsibility was to conduct the elections and we did that creditably.

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, the Former President has also said the elections were fraudulent. This is not true. The elections were fair, transparent, and credible which have been attested to by local and international observers and the General Secretary of the NDC.

After the declaration of the results, the NDC initially challenged the elections by stating that the elections were rigged and that they had won.

But they went to the Supreme Court alleging no one had won. However, throughout the proceedings at the court, they were not able to provide any pink sheet to support their claim of fraudulent elections. The two main political parties had at least two agents at all the polling stations representing the interests of their presidential and parliamentary candidates.

If you've already registered, you can e-mail us to let us know. We will then remove your old registration. Moving house. If a member of your household has passed away, we will provide you with a unique reference number so that you can remove them from the electoral register on the Gov.

They can do this on the Gov. Register to vote. You can do this by returning any post we have sent them, clearly marked as 'not at this address'. Send e-mail. If you have changed your nationality, contact us as it may affect which elections you can vote in.