Polling stations almost deserted in parts Cantonments

Polling stations in some parts of Cantonments and El Wak were almost deserted, six hours after voting began in the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

Unlike some areas, which had long queues of voters this morning, there were only about one or two people at the polling stations at a time.

At the BOD Primary school, in the Dade Kotopon constituency, only two people were in line to vote when the GNA visited.

The Presiding Officer, Mr. Richmond Sackey said voting started exactly 0700 hours and 308 people had cast their ballots out of a total of 619 registered voters at that polling station and they had had no problem with the biometric verification devices.

Madam Salomey Okine, Presiding Officer at the WEB Dubois Centre, in the same constituency, said the only problem they had experienced had to do with one exclusion involving a woman whose particulars could not be found in the register as well as on the verification device and was thus not allowed to vote. All officials and materials were at the polling station before 0700 hours and voting started on time.

The Airforce Officer’s Mess Polling Station was also almost deserted. Presiding Officer King Manteaw Odoi, said this was because it was a security zone, and some of the registered voters there, being security officials had cast their ballots in the special voting session held on Tuesday.