The Electoral Commission (EC) has disclosed that it detected a total of 88,000 duplicated voter identification numbers and have resolved the issue and will issue the new cards with unique identification numbers to the affected persons.
Mrs Jean Mensa addressing the media Monday, 28th September, 2020 noted that the problem occurred as a result of network challenges that led to registration being done offline.
She noted that for the purposes of transparency, all political party agents would be part of the process to replace the duplicated cards with new unique ones.
Commenting on the challenges of the of the voter exhibition exercise that ended yesterday, she reiterated that the commission has neither the intention nor the power to disenfranchise any citizen.
“We will not relent but continue to ensure that everyone who registered is counted as part of the register”, said.
Mrs Jean Mensa added: “As a Commission, we will spare no effort in ensuring that every vote counts”.
She explained further that “the registration of voters is done using the biometric registration devices at the polling centres. Thereafter, the data is transmitted to the data centre where it undergoes the process of deduplication by the automatic biometric identification system.”
