The EC had initially insisted that the first phase would be the only period<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for the re-registration amidst an uproar from stakeholders raising concerns of the mass disenfranchisement of eligible voters.<\/p>\n The Commission later backtracked on its stance and extended the exercise<\/a><\/span><\/strong> with a second phase starting from August 5 to August 12 which saw and extra 5,263 persons re-registered, persons who would other-wise been disenfranchised.<\/p>\n Two days left for the re-registration<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Dzakpasu also added that there will be two extra days for persons to re-register as part of the continuous registrations.<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond this, on the 19th<\/sup> of August which is this and the next Friday on the 26th<\/sup> of August is the window for continuous registration so all person who have not registered before including people whose names have been deleted from the register because they used the NHIS to register have these last two days as their opportunity to register,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cUnlike the first phase when at the closure of the exercise, we had a backlog of people, some even at the district office\u2026 at the close of the second phase, all the offices and registration centre were devoid of people who wanted to register.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are only hoping that on the 19th<\/sup> and the 26th<\/sup>, those who are left wherever they may be will take advantage and go to our offices to register,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Persons who fail to re-register within this period can expect no further extensions according to the EC Communicator.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether we are going back to go and look out for names; I don\u2019t think so.by the close of the 26th<\/sup>, that brings to a closure the issue of the re-registration,\u201d Mr. Dzakpasu cautioned.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed that it has re-registered\u00a052 percent of the over-56,000 deleted National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registrants onto the electoral register. The deletion and re-registration exercise ordered by the Supreme Court according to the EC saw the re-registering of 29,550 persons “which represents 52 percent of the 56,772 deleted names.” [contextly_sidebar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647,2648,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Director](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0290.jpg\")
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