ADDRESS NETWORK CHALLENGES IN VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISE – Mahama Urges EC

Mahama continued, “People are coming from all over to register at one point. The second thing I have noticed, and the complaint, is that the network is not strong. And so they are not able to use the instant online registration. And so they are capturing some data offline. The danger is that sometimes there’s a repeat of somebody’s name, not of his/hers.”

Mahama went on to urge the EC to speak with telecom companies to resolve the network bottleneck and allow for faster registration. He also called on the EC to consider opening up the registration exercise to more centres to reduce congestion.

“I have spoken to many of the young people who have turned 18 years,and they don’t have Ghana cards. It means that if we had insisted on the Ghana Card as the only means of registration, it means all these young people I have seen would not have been able to register,” he added.