The need for Electoral Reforms.

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JC 12 years ago

THE ONLY REFORM IS WE SHALL ALL GO TO THE POLLING STATIONS WITH GUNS, CUTLASSES, MACHETES, CLUBS, WOMAFUNU, ... ETC. IF YOU LOSE YOU LOSE, NO SUPREME COURT!

THE ONLY REFORM IS WE SHALL ALL GO TO THE POLLING STATIONS WITH GUNS, CUTLASSES, MACHETES, CLUBS, WOMAFUNU, ... ETC. IF YOU LOSE YOU LOSE, NO SUPREME COURT!
BEN 12 years ago

NOTHING MORE TO SAY

NOTHING MORE TO SAY
LATRINEMAN 12 years ago

If this is all, then a street boy 'kobolor' could have presided over the petition case. No recommendations (advice) for Mma Ghana ? Wow !!!

If this is all, then a street boy 'kobolor' could have presided over the petition case. No recommendations (advice) for Mma Ghana ? Wow !!!
Ohene. 12 years ago

You are Soo. Right.

You are Soo. Right.
kwabena owusu texas, u.s.a. 12 years ago

well presented, good job, yes we seriously need electoral reforms to save us from the verge of war. thank God everything is fine and thumb up for all ghanaians for keeping their cool,what a great nation even in the midst of s ...
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well presented, good job, yes we seriously need electoral reforms to save us from the verge of war. thank God everything is fine and thumb up for all ghanaians for keeping their cool,what a great nation even in the midst of strenous economic hardship we still stand tall. its now time for the government to fight corruption and bring to justice all those men of higher positions who have caused financial loses to this great nation, yes time for accountabiility, Mr president please do the will of the people now that you are lonely in the drivers seat, God's willing.
CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

Don't know where you got the courage to write such rubbish.
The 2012 elections were just as flawed as all the elections we have had since 2000. NPP enjoyed it's glorious 8 years looting the country of its wealth and assets. ...
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Don't know where you got the courage to write such rubbish.
The 2012 elections were just as flawed as all the elections we have had since 2000. NPP enjoyed it's glorious 8 years looting the country of its wealth and assets. Poor, ugly, dysfunctional bush men and women prancing around in fast cars and mansions, still living large, like monkeys loose in a big city. I think all this got into your heads so much that you could never imagine yourselves going back to the forest.

2012 was close and was imperfect, Mahama won, arrogant Akuffo Addo hatched a brilliant idea to gamble wth the emotions of the citizens and the Supreme Court, just in the event that they could have woken up and the wrong side of their mats, and thrown a monkey wrench into Afari Djan's declaration of the results as he has graciously done several times. I wonder what people like you thought of those results when it favored your naked cutlass welding warriors. You make me sick, because all you have spewed is just so ethnocentric and primitive tribal defense. So what the fuck do you want in life? Mahama won, and there is nothing you can do or say to change anything. If you guys misbehave, I hope to God that he starts beheading some of you loud mouthed arrogant skunks!
Ohene. 12 years ago

Idiot. Son of a Bich.

Idiot. Son of a Bich.
CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

We do not need any Electoral reforms, in Ghana, reform means to make worse.
Disgruntled villagers, you all deserve Mahama, he will make you fishers of men!

We do not need any Electoral reforms, in Ghana, reform means to make worse.
Disgruntled villagers, you all deserve Mahama, he will make you fishers of men!
SAM 12 years ago

It is amazing how the very man who saw to all of Ghana's elections and declared both the NPP and NDC at one point in time as winners suddenly became evil and power drunk.
Leave Afari Djan alone.If NPP had been declared winn ...
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It is amazing how the very man who saw to all of Ghana's elections and declared both the NPP and NDC at one point in time as winners suddenly became evil and power drunk.
Leave Afari Djan alone.If NPP had been declared winners in the election will they have demonised this "small man" Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking elections are without problems in even developed countries such as the USA? Have we forgotten Algore vrs Bush ? and the fact that Algore had every good reason to go to court but for the sake of peace and national unity he let go. Yes we need to modernizes and reform our electoral system but for a country like Ghana with all the limitations in transportation, telecommunication I think we did well. By the actions of the NPP, the nation was almost dragged into a civil war and only God knows how much money, productive time that has been wasted with a so called rock Solid case which in fact an average person soon found out it has no basis. The law is in fact not about just the truth but the evidence. God Bless Ghana and I will suggest we channel our energy into things that are productive and not wasteful events like this one.
AMA 12 years ago

Lamptey, you are confused about who the small man is. It is Akuffo Addo and not the EC. Why didn't you call the EC a small man when he declared K4 winner twice? Use your 'small mind'.

Lamptey, you are confused about who the small man is. It is Akuffo Addo and not the EC. Why didn't you call the EC a small man when he declared K4 winner twice? Use your 'small mind'.

OPPONG 12 years ago

All this stories writer doesn't make sense. It is like a poor student who didn't prepare well for his exams when fail in the exams always blame heartless of the examining body.
Whether Dr Afari Gyan arrogated himself with w ...
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All this stories writer doesn't make sense. It is like a poor student who didn't prepare well for his exams when fail in the exams always blame heartless of the examining body.
Whether Dr Afari Gyan arrogated himself with with absolute power or not, the constitutional requirement allowed any aggrieved person or party to take his / Her matter to the court as we just saw over the past 8 months legal battling .
The writer shouldn't assumed that this the first time that election matter has been annoused without LISTERN to aggrieved party. KUFFOUR time NDC challenged Many of electoral fruds that charaterised both 2000 and 2004 but all were dismissed under the same Afari Djan EC chairmanship. Did we burnt Ghana and where were you then sore losser. "Winning Power at all cost fraternity"
Give us a break.
Esi 12 years ago

Why is this man takin things so personal. Please address the issues. We are tired of this type of reporting!!!!

Why is this man takin things so personal. Please address the issues. We are tired of this type of reporting!!!!
Isaac 12 years ago

Thats so wonderful, but let me say emphatically that as much as we try to reform our EC we should equall make a great effort to reform ourselves into trusting independent institutions like the EC.That i think is equall releva ...
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Thats so wonderful, but let me say emphatically that as much as we try to reform our EC we should equall make a great effort to reform ourselves into trusting independent institutions like the EC.That i think is equall relevant to the progress and stability of our nation.
Benash 12 years ago

Very well said Mr. Damptey. In fact you've said it all but the question is are our leaders willing to make this sensible changes? Our so-called leaders don't have the balls to effect or implement any change if that change is ...
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Very well said Mr. Damptey. In fact you've said it all but the question is are our leaders willing to make this sensible changes? Our so-called leaders don't have the balls to effect or implement any change if that change is not just to their advantage or will put money in their pockets. It's about time the masses rise up and demand such changes. Thanks for educating us all.
JIM CROW 12 years ago

DISHONEST SUPREME COURT JUDGES! TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THE LAW CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND INSTRUMENTS! HOW WILL AFRICA DEVELOP WITH CHARACTERS LIKE THESE?

DISHONEST SUPREME COURT JUDGES! TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THE LAW CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND INSTRUMENTS! HOW WILL AFRICA DEVELOP WITH CHARACTERS LIKE THESE?
Kobena 12 years ago

Daniel,
You are right about electoral reform. However, it will require a steong and honest government to do it. Much of the mess Ghana finds itself today, social, economic, political, etc can be laid at the feet of Mr Kufuor ...
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Daniel,
You are right about electoral reform. However, it will require a steong and honest government to do it. Much of the mess Ghana finds itself today, social, economic, political, etc can be laid at the feet of Mr Kufuor. He had a chance to clean Ghanaian politics, at least during his second term, but he did not bother. He was mre interested in medals!

The creation of new constituencies, for instance, could have been done more honestly, instead of the situation where some constituencies with 90,000 voters still send one representative as others with 20,000.

Yes, we need short-term and long-term reforms. In the short-term, a commission made up of all of civil society, the religious organisations, universities, TUC, political parties and since the EU is ready to help, their representative, to get together and design a simple and honest vote recording system before the next election.

It is most unfair to expect a candidate to provide one or more agents for 26,000 polling stations on election day. That clearly excludes good and honest, but poor citizens from contesting elections in the country. The state should begin to fund election campaings, with a cap on how much each candidate/party can spend in a campaign.

In the long term, we need a proper national identification/registry system. Birth registry is vitually non-existent in Ghana. Why should a poor country like Ghana spend millions every two or three years to register voters, much of which is stolen anyway? Ghana's one of the very few Third World countries that does not have a decent birth/death registry system.

In the UK for instance, the day after someone turns 18, they automatially receive forms for voter registration. With a proper house numbering system, the electorsl authority sends the exact number of voter forms to every household before elections. If you move and wish to register or change voting area, the head of the household completes a form to get you registered. It is an offence to do double registration, and most of the time the system has a pretty good idea of the number of people in a household through tenancy and mortgage arrangements, anyway.

In most places when neighbours see two or three people come and go over a certain period, they will call the immigration/police to investigate the place.

Democracy is expensive, but wars are even more so. Next time it may not be a civilised Nana Addo! As citizens, sometimes we need to agitate for reforms in society, instead of calling radio stations to hurl insults at each other.
Paa Kodwo 12 years ago

WHAT IS MOST NEEDED IS TO HAVE PETITION CHALLENGING ANY FUTURE GENERAL ELECTION ANCHORED IN THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA, AND WHICH STIPULATES THAT, A DELIBERATION ON PETITION AT THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA NEED CTO HAVE A DURATI ...
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WHAT IS MOST NEEDED IS TO HAVE PETITION CHALLENGING ANY FUTURE GENERAL ELECTION ANCHORED IN THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA, AND WHICH STIPULATES THAT, A DELIBERATION ON PETITION AT THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA NEED CTO HAVE A DURATION OF TWO WEEKS, BEFORE A PRESIDENT IS INAUGURATED.

ELECTORIAL REFORMS ARE NECESSARY, AS MEASURES TO CORRECT WHERE FAILURES WERE IN A GENERAL ELECTION.

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