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EC boss backs surgical method to audit voters’ register

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  • anna 8 years ago

    eeeiiiii maame charlotte think gh

  • Sigma, London 8 years ago

    If we are thinking of a new voters' register, it wil take a long time to do it properly. In addition, there will be a lot of money involved. If there is a way of removing illegal voters from the register surgically, I think t ...
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  • ATSU,HO 8 years ago

    1. DO WE HAVE SCANNED PHOTOS IN THE REGISTER? IF YES HOW DID IT GET THERE
    2. IN THE 2012 ELECTION WAS THERE A 500,000 VOTER TURNOUT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS? IS IT THE CASE THAT AFERI G ...
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  • GOD SAVE GHANA 8 years ago

    HOW IS THE E.C. GOING TO SURGICALY AUDIT GARI FROM SAND.THIS VERY REGISTER IS NOT LIKE,JUST TAKEN THE BABY OUT AND THROW AWAY THE DITY WATER,THE BABY IS INFESTED WITH EBOLA.THIS VERY VOTER'S REGISTER IS ALREADY INFESTED AND N ...
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  • TARANTULA 8 years ago

    In the article above, this woman who has been strangely appointed as the Chair of the EC says that "..... allegations of minors cannot actually be proven, adding that minors are lured by political parties to register."

    Is ...
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  • makus 8 years ago

    you are women so don't sell ur intergrty to mahama

  • LAWYER 8 years ago

    NPP WILL BE DISGRACE THE SECOND TIME FOR LYING TO GHANAIANS

  • NMAMADE 8 years ago

    NPP HAS NO CASE; AS FAR AS COMPUTERS ARE CONCERN: THE WILL BE DISGRACE THE SECOND TIME

  • YF 8 years ago

    But do you think Ghanaians like you? Ooh so you think they are fools to vote for idiots who are stealing and making their lives unbearable? Is that why yentie obiaa syndrome? Then get ready to go on hunger strike come 2016 be ...
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  • Sigma, London 8 years ago

    Although I will support a surgical audit of the voters' register, I feel it is absolutely wrong for the EC to openly declare her support for this method while a sitting committe has been set up by herself.

  • NMAMADE 8 years ago

    EC WILL SHOW NPP WHERE THE BOOKLONG IS:

  • SHORT MAN DEVIL 8 years ago

    OH NPP!! ALWAYS BLAMING PINK SHEETS, VOTERS REGISTER, ELECTORAL COMMISSION, AFARI GYAN, VOLTARIANS, THE POLICE AND ARMED FORCES AS BEING NDC, PAUL AFOKO BUT NOT KWABENA AGYEPONG BECAUSE HE IS ASHANTI AND YOU DARE NOT SUSPEND ...
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  • Kofi, USA 8 years ago

    Our Nana Addo ugly Who art in Ghana Loser be your name Thy defeat come again Your free education be done by NDC As it is in your promise Give us this day our all die be die plan And forgive us our supreme court verdict As we ...
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  • APONKYE 8 years ago

    AKUA has analyses the issue far better than the useless Prof AMOAKU Baah.

  • Sammy the Sheriff 8 years ago

    Why did this woman set up the commission for when before the commission can issue it's decision, she has already tipped them what her preference is?

    It was a waste of time and finance going through the motions when this wo ...
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  • Anin, USA 8 years ago

    Mahama brought her Nigerian girl friend to succeed Afarigyan, we already know where her favorites are.

  • Mahmoud 8 years ago

    The NDC tricksters are again trying to blindfold Ghanaians in order to rig the 2016 elections because they know they have failed miserably and Ghanaians want them out.

    NDC has never accepted that the voters' register was ...
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  • Kofi Adomako.Koforidua 8 years ago

    Stop your stupidity there in usa and comment wisely,who told you the lady is a nigerian and a girlfriend of the president if you are braught to prove you will run from your silly comment.-offui

  • New Sherrif in Town 8 years ago

    Very nebulous. Surgical method to audit voters' register? Is it going to involve removal of organs, implants or bypass surgery? The EC as is currently constituted is very confused and overwhelmed by the forces standing up aga ...
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  • Ernest 8 years ago

    These are the facts on the ground. A new register now will only exacerbate the current tension during the registration exercise leading to fruitless or worse register since the old identification and other problems exist. G ...
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  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    The International Community does not want Nana Addo to kill the Biometric Voting System in Africa.The modern technology is the best system known to reduce electoral fraud and will not support Nana Addo to rubbish it.Ofcourse, ...
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  • DB 8 years ago

    Nonsense who has mentioned Nana Addo here? We are talking about a process that will bring us all peace and you are there talking about Nana Addo. Why are some of you so obsessed with this man? Nonsense.

  • LAWYER 8 years ago

    NPP IN TROUBLE: LIES HAVE SHORT LEGS

  • NMAMADE 8 years ago

    THIS PARTY WILL BE HISTORY VERY SOON

  • OWEN-NEW YORK 8 years ago

    The EC should start something new for the people of Ghana to have a clear and trustworthy voters register that everyone will accept in good faith. People may even not go out to vote because the perception that the election is ...
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  • Olu 8 years ago

    NDC EC.

  • STEVE 8 years ago

    The EC is not showing SUPPORT to any particular political party, but just doing the right thing. All those allegations by the NPP are bogus and must be ignored. Why did the NPP not include their current allegations in the SUP ...
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  • Ataa 8 years ago

    Were you in the country when the petition started? By making the statement that "All those allegations by the NPP are bogus and must be ignored" shows how ignorant you are. Don't follow any party lines blindly. Go and list t ...
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  • Watusey 8 years ago

    Please be truthful to yourself a bit.

  • Maame Abena 8 years ago

    The EC Charlotte Osei 2days forume was a waste of time. Charlotte Osei decided a long time ago to work for Mahama and not Ghana.
    As for Nana Akufo-Addo, you are a nice guy, and nice guys finish last. It is so bad in Ghana th ...
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  • Onua Ben 8 years ago

    EC Boss, your comments show that you have all along made up your mind to please your pay masters. You did not even address any of the genuine concerns raised by fair minded people who see problems with the current register. ...
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  • Anthony 8 years ago

    EC boss , CHARLOTTE OSEI , comes out nicely as very well informed , rational and bold. She also looks confident and ready for the job of conducting credible and true national elections in Ghana. Her presentation at the EC FOR ...
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  • ANKOBEA-HENE 8 years ago

    I remember how teams complaint when they lost a match or game by saying so many things like, IT THE GRASS ON THE FIELD, THE BALL ISNT IN PROPER SHAPE, IT'S THE REFEREE, OR EVEN THE POSITION OF THE GOAL POST.

  • OKOROMANSA 8 years ago

    THIS NEW EC CHAIR THINKS SHE IS TOO SMART, BUT HOW COULD THAT BE? SHE IS RATHER PLAYING TRICKS JUST TO BUY TIME AND COME OUT TO SAY THAT THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME TO COMPILE A NEW REGISTER. SHAMELESS WOMAN BRIBED BY MAHAMA AND H ...
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  • Kwaku Fosu ( 8 years ago

    In the UK I have just submitted my form just confirming my identity and particulars to be accurate.
    Why not the same procedures being denied to our fellow citizens back home ?
    k.fosu@aol.co.uk

  • Sam Walker 8 years ago

    Ooo my God npp is too controversial every thing abt it is a problem no wonder ur forefathers take 5000 dollars 2 overthrow Nkrumah look @ Gh 2day

  • Politricks 8 years ago

    Is it true that they swore to make Ghana ungovernable? And started with the court petition after elections...This is an unfortunate shame.

  • David 8 years ago

    Shameless liars, tribalist, criminals

  • David 8 years ago

    We all watched her. She did not commit to any but just mentioned surgical cleaning AS AN OPTION

  • Ataa 8 years ago

    How can you set up a forum and even before they present their findings, support one side of the group? Are you starting with a clear mind or following your own professional guidelines around fairness and no judgement? Clearly ...
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  • Attu zongo 8 years ago

    If EL says more evidence from nap then what is backing again?

  • Dr. Appocco 8 years ago

    Ghanaian elites love bandying terms and phrases around. What is a "surgical method", and what does it entail? Give Ghanaians concrete examples of what the EC would do to "cleanse" the register instead of hiding behind some ...
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  • KOTOKO BA 8 years ago

    THIS EC IS GOING TO SET THE COUNTRY ON FIRE IN 2016 BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT SHE IS NOT INDEPENDENT BUT RATHER AND AN NDC OPERATIVE.

  • Ghana must know. 8 years ago

    Is this EC boss genuine?. The just ended forum was nothing but a concert party. The Ec must show us the disputed voters register to counter the Npp's claims. Ghanaians should be serious for once. What went on at the supreme ...
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  • #CHANGE IT 8 years ago

    Ghanaians and the whole world now know the voters register which we have been using for our elections is as compromised as compromised can be. Do we audit that compromised voters register and where do we begin? And who says, ...
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  • Chabba 8 years ago

    What did I say? The new EC chairwoman is appointed as a mole to work for the NDC not for a free and fair elections in Ghana. What she forgets is that any chaos she brings into Ghana she will have her fair of the consequences. ...
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  • BlaGoDzi 8 years ago

    to contribute their quota??
    WTF has been going on these past 2 days?
    a lot of people are all thinking the same thing. EC has a job to clean this up. Let's see how it goes. So many senior computer students are just dumbfoun ...
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  • Frank 8 years ago

    Mahama has already bought a house for EC boss C.Osei in Canada plus an amount of huge money which has been deposited in some one name in Dubai.

  • Frank 8 years ago

    Mahama has already bought a house for EC boss C.Osei in Canada plus an amount of huge money which has been deposited in some one name in Dubai.

  • Frank 8 years ago

    Mahama has already bought a house for EC boss C.Osei in Canada plus an amount of huge money which has been deposited in some one name in Dubai.

  • Joseph Bugri 8 years ago

    The problem of NPP is that, they fail to listen to Dr Brobbey and Dr Kenneth Arthur, the two most logical and objective thinkers in the party. They rather listen to emotional and illogical thinkers like Gabby and Akuffo Addo ...
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  • Georgee 8 years ago

    It is utterly impossible to clean the flawed register,simply change it to make it credible.

  • Hamza Jegbali from Galwei 8 years ago

    NPP would never appreciate the interest Ghanaians but they always want things to be in favour. Lies... #NPP