The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers CODEO wants the Electoral Commission to ensure a clean voter\u2019s register for the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”Kpl5UAVASL8ntLHN5oY6nkrxf4dBK8oq”]This comes on the back of the EC\u2019s call on political parties to state their stance on the NPP\u2019s proposal<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for a new register since according to the party, the current one is bloated and discredited.<\/p>\n Speaking in an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, the Co-Chair of CODEO Professor Miranda Greenstreet stated that the EC should be able to assure Ghanaians that the voters register is credible enough for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n \u201cI must be quite honest that from the point of view of CODEO, we do not believe that an election can be organized if the register is not good enough. But there are several ways in dealing with the register. A register can be cleaned up, you can start a new register, you can try and eliminate all the problems and we are not in a position to tell the electoral commission to scrap the whole register because there are several ways that this can be done. So we leave it at the moment to the EC.\u201d<\/p>\n In another development, the\u00a0Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Portuphy has said, it would be expensive<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to heed to calls by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a new voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n He argued that the country at this point in time does not need a new voters\u2019 register citing economic issues as a major factor for this.<\/p>\n \u201cWe must always be thinking about the economy in terms of what it takes to build a register. If a nation cannot afford it, what do we do? So there are other ways of looking at the register not necessarily saying lets change it, I\u2019m saying that it is expensive,\u201d he said in a Citi News<\/strong> interview.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n