Why Ghana Has Probably the World’s Worst Voters’ Register

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• Kwame Nti 11 years ago

  You didnt have a problem with the voter's register when the EC declared the NPP winners in 2000 and 2004; But now you do! Keep gnashing your teeth, who cares!

  You didnt have a problem with the voter's register when the EC declared the NPP winners in 2000 and 2004; But now you do! Keep gnashing your teeth, who cares!

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• Bernard 11 years ago

  Why is it that Otchere Darko wants to impose himself on Ghanaians? This guy who could not get any meaningful job in the UK because of his criminal background would every Ghanaian to believe him as intelectual.
  
  He is decei ...
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  Why is it that Otchere Darko wants to impose himself on Ghanaians? This guy who could not get any meaningful job in the UK because of his criminal background would every Ghanaian to believe him as intelectual.
  
  He is deceiful and does not think through properly before he comes to spew garbage. For all you know someone has written this for him to paste. This is all GARBAGE GABBY at his worst.

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• G. K. Berko 11 years ago

  Without proving the raw data wrong, Gabby has no case. He is only assuming that Ghana ought to fit into the trend he claims for African countries.
  
  Gabby has to prove the empirical data that specify the percentage of our ...
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  Without proving the raw data wrong, Gabby has no case. He is only assuming that Ghana ought to fit into the trend he claims for African countries.
  
  Gabby has to prove the empirical data that specify the percentage of our Median Age is wrong; he has to show we could not have more of the vibrant youthful middle of the Population than the other African countries going to the Polls.
  
  Why doesn't the Danquah Institute finance the neutral review of the voter's registration periodically, just prior to Elections,if the Institute has no faith in the list that the Electoral Commission compiles? In that case, it would have the most updated data to compare with that of the Electoral Commission's.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• Captein 11 years ago

  OOh No!! Orcthere-Darko and his failed Danquah/Busia Institution again.
  This guy is not even a mathematician nor a Statistician. He even claims he is a lawyer but failed his law school.
  Where lies the ROBUSTNESS of his test ...
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  OOh No!! Orcthere-Darko and his failed Danquah/Busia Institution again.
  This guy is not even a mathematician nor a Statistician. He even claims he is a lawyer but failed his law school.
  Where lies the ROBUSTNESS of his test. Please mark the word robustness for it is a STATISTICAL TERM another will be COHORTS.
  By the way lets not even apply the science of Statistics and apply maybe arithmetic or just rational thinking alone and Ghanaian market women accounting and you will notice the the illiterate market woman will understand the mathematics than the saod Danquah institute.
  This is the reality of his folly.
  NOW he said because the Statistic of Ghana showed that 0-19 year olds are 49% therefore the electoral register of 56% was wrong.
  The other statement which he truthfully acknowledged is that Ghanaians are allowed to vote from the age of 18 years of age.
  Clearly, the electoral data is not the same as Ghana's Population Census Data.
  The electoral data if for nothing has a 1%+more persons more than the Population census data.
  Maybe he is assuming that that 1% even if taken out should make the 0-19 year olds figure short to say 48%. In his twisted mind then the electoral register should be at most 52%.
  No, no, no, about his spin he did not realise that things do not work that way in nature or by nature. In reality the figures in the statistics are not proportionally assigned.
  WHERE is the case for bloated register that Ireland is; 68.6%, United Kingdom; 73.13% and Ghana; 56.2%.
  If by the Nana Akufo-ADDO's cousins thinking there is a bloating which of these three countries is bloated obviously it will be Britain followed by Ireland.
  But I am the first person to tell you that I will not even attempt this sort of lazy man's analysis because it was be flawed by so many factors here anyways.
  The fact of the matter is Ghana's Electoral Register can not be said to be bloated as this person has published in the paper and through the eyes of a peer reviewed scientific paper will not be accepted for publication.
  It is boldly, an abysmal paper and does mot meet the rigors of the scientific community's methodologies, results and conclusion.
  The recommendations are;
  1. The think tank or writer should withdraw the publication/and with a rejoinder of apology.
  2. The writer or researcher should go back and do the proper research and corrections using the recommended scientific tools for this kind of paper within 3 three months of receiving this notice.
  3. The new results should be reviewed by the institutions involved for FOOTNOTES where necessary before it is re-published after all cirrections are made.
  4. It is important to not that the publication itself poses a National Security threat way beyound the "All Die Be Die" rantings, the Supreme Court case that has compounded the problems of Ghana's economy today
  
  5. And even the more serious and comparable to any natural disaster like the triple; earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan.
  
  The Ghana government should be on AMBER alert as ti the activities of this organization in the future.
  "To be half educated is wirst than not to be educated at all."

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• Captein 11 years ago

  To be half educated is worst than not to be educated at all."

  To be half educated is worst than not to be educated at all."

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• G. K. Berko 11 years ago

  Gabby, your population (the elements compared) is too scanty; the 9 Countries you selected do not adequately represent the World numerically, or regionally.
  
  Stop skewing the Data to favor your line of argument.
  
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  Gabby, your population (the elements compared) is too scanty; the 9 Countries you selected do not adequately represent the World numerically, or regionally.
  
  Stop skewing the Data to favor your line of argument.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 11 years ago

  Don't pay heed to that guy. He only finds it necessary to rant about the wrongs in the system when the NPP party is not mandating the affairs of the land. Such statements of his should have registered before all during the da ...
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  Don't pay heed to that guy. He only finds it necessary to rant about the wrongs in the system when the NPP party is not mandating the affairs of the land. Such statements of his should have registered before all during the days of Kufuor's two term administration if he so damned cares about our voter's register criteria in place since the 1992 constitution. To me, credence is the vocabulary missing in any statement posted by Gaddy before the world as long as the NDC's administration is in charge down there.

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• HONESTY 11 years ago

  This guy who was "dashed" a law certificate at the Ghana Law School will not let Ghanaians have their peace? His uncle Akufo Addo can never become president in Ghana. Alan is more attractive to us, the floating voters!!!

  This guy who was "dashed" a law certificate at the Ghana Law School will not let Ghanaians have their peace? His uncle Akufo Addo can never become president in Ghana. Alan is more attractive to us, the floating voters!!!

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