{"id":220517,"date":"2016-06-07T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=220517"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:01:42","slug":"parallel-tabulation-of-election-results-not-new-kofi-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/parallel-tabulation-of-election-results-not-new-kofi-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel tabulation of election results not new &#8211; Kofi Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has downplayed the opposition New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) plans to tabulate results of the election alongside the Electoral Commission (EC).<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Adams, political parties have always engaged in some form of parallel tabulation as a means of verification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why the Electoral Commission gave every party that is at the polling station the results sheet,\u201d he retorted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NPP to &#8216;declare its own results&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;yPV7pcQDcHGquIRhIngrvUcpLz3W9ZiN&#8221;]Mr. Adams was speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> in response to reports saying the NPP Campaign Manager, Peter Mac Manu, declared that his party would announce its own election results during the\u00a0November polls.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Mac Manu later asserted that his comments were taken out of context. According to him, he was only serving notice that the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/07\/i-said-well-collate-results-alongside-ec-mac-manu\/\">NPP will engage in the parallel tabulation<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the results alongside the EC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parallel tabulation used for verification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NDC National Organizer however explained that tabulation of results at the poling centres is no innovation as political parties have been using it to challenge perceived anomalies at collation centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot declare your own results however, the results declaration sheet that you are given will serve as the basis for you to challenge anything that you say was uncovered and that must be done and could be done at the collation center before any the results are added; and that has always been happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nothing wrong with parallel tabulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Adams maintained that there \u201cthere is absolutely nothing wrong with that\u201d whilst noting that the NDC had used the parallel tabulation as a means of verification in past general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He however stated that the line had to be drawn when attempts are made to supersede the\u00a0EC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely no wrong in saying that you are going to tabulate it but you cannot declare results&#8230;\u00a0You cannot force the Electoral Commission to accept your figures unless you produce the results declaration sheet that you used in doing your tabulation. 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