Upper East girds up for Biometric Exercise

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Wednesday held a media dialogue in the Upper East Region on the biometric registration exercise to ascertain the level of preparedness and the processes involved in the exercise.

Mr Bruce Ayisi, Regional Director of EC, said the dialogue was to provide information to the media on the exercise and to receive feed back to enhance the EC’s work in the region regarding the exercise.

Mr Ayisi said the EC had clustered all 23,000 polling stations nationwide into clusters to ensure effectiveness and the use of biometric kits.

Mr Ayisi said movement schedules have been prepared and six EC officials would be allocated to work for 10 days in a clustered polling station.

He said in the Upper East Region, as in other regions, four polling stations would be grouped to form one cluster and would be managed by six officials and a biometric kit given to each station to work for 10days.

Mr Ayisi said the clusters were made convenient to allow everybody to register within the forty days and there was no need for people to rush particularly for the first 10 days.

He said public educators were on the ground to create awareness of the movement schedules and advised that people should register at a place convenient to them.

He also assured the public that the biometric kit would function effectively even in the remotest communities where there was no electricity.**