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Ghana's electoral body extends voter re-registration deadline

Xinhua, August 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) has decided to extend the deadline for its just-ended voter re-registration exercise until August 12, local media reported here Thursday.

This means some 30,000 voters who could not register during the initial exercise now have a second window of opportunity to get their names on the voters' register.

Ghanaians will go to the polls on December 7 to elect a president and 275 members of parliament.

The commission has therefore fixed a new date of August 5 -12 for holders of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards deemed not to have qualified to vote in this year's election the chance to do so.

The initial re-registration exercise began on July 18 and ended on July 28, 2016.

The state-run Daily Graphic indicated here Thursday that the EC made the new date known after a meeting of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee embracing all stakeholders, particularly the political parties, in the national capital.

The EC is currently carrying out this exercise in tandem with the exhibition of the voters register to allow all eligible voters to check and confirm their names in the voters register. Endit