No polling station will have more than 700 voters in the December 2024 general elections, the Electoral Commission has announced.

Mr Mawuli Adufutse, the Sekondi District Electoral Officer, said the Commission was looking at splitting polling stations with over 700 voters to ensure that late-night counting after polls was halted.

Mr Adufutse was responding to a question posed by a political party representative on why the Commission had over the period encouraged late-night counting and in some cases without proper visibility.

Poor visibility, it is argued, compromised the credibility of figures announced and presented an avenue for electoral violence.

The meeting organised by the Sekondi Sub Metro of the National Commission for Civic Education had in attendance market queens, youth groups and political party representatives, excluding the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the two major political parties in Ghana.

The forum was also used to select committee executives
responsible for the parliamentary debates of aspiring parliamentary candidates.

Mr. Adufutse added that elections were purely the responsibility of the EC, with the securities mandated to provide peace.

The representatives also spoke against politics of insults and defacing of posters.

Police Superintendent Isaac Kumnipah, the MTTD Commander, advised the various parties to organise their activities in line with Public Act 491 and asked that they notify the police on time for all activities to ensure that maximum security was provided.

He provided the 191 and the 18555 emergency lines for the public to regularly engage them in the event of any social insecurity issues.

Madam Harriet Addeywood, the Metropolitan Director of the NCCE, lauded the willingness of the parties gathered to promote and ensure clean campaigns.

She prayed that the parties would not indulge in vote-buying activities, Electoral violence as well as spewing unsavoury comments and false information.

Source: Ghana News Agency