{"id":236865,"date":"2016-08-05T06:09:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=236865"},"modified":"2016-08-05T06:09:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:09:18","slug":"npp-noise-on-e-transmission-of-results-appalling-pnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/npp-noise-on-e-transmission-of-results-appalling-pnc\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP ‘noise’ on e-transmission of results appalling – PNC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The People’s National Convention (PNC) has defended the Electoral Commission’s proposed Electronic Results Transmission System (ERTS) for December\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n
According to the\u00a0National Chairman of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, the criticism of the EC’s decision to\u00a0electronically transmit the results in December’s election was disappointing given the party’s agreement on the matter at the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”ofWbYTqitriNmhtVkfM7r6fN8GM9ezOG”]”I’m appalled\u00a0by the noise that we are making around an otherwise peaceful process that will lead to a smoother and faster process of transmitting election [results]. I recall that many of us had proposed this idea at many IPAC meetings and made suggestions to it. It has been deliberated at length,” Bernard Mornah said on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He admitted that he had concerns with the EC’s failure to inform the parties prior to the initiation of measures\u00a0for the electronic transmission of results but insisted that it wasn’t reason enough to cast doubt on the entire system.<\/p>\n “My only concern is that even as the EC has accepted to do some of the proposals including the electronic transmission of results, we should have been informed beforehand that the EC had taken the necessary steps to ensure that they are able to accompany the manual election results transmission with the electronic transmission,” he added.<\/p>\n “Beyond that there is nothing about it. If the votes are obtained at a polling station, it is that vote which would be transmitted to the collation center or the national headquarters [of the EC] and these days there\u2019s not going to be a strong room concept so it is going to be an open thing for everyone to see. It appears to me that our political parties are bereft of ideas so they magnify any little thing to create something to talk about.”<\/p>\n According to Bernard Mornah, there are more pertinent issues which need to be addressed and the various political parties would be better served focusing their efforts on them.<\/p>\n “We in the PNC think that there\u2019s so much to talk about to bring about a healthy economy to ensure that our people are able to be employed and not to engage in things that all of us have agreed on only for one party to say they don\u2019t agree, which becomes the news rather than talking about what will be able to save our nation from its current economic and social quagmire,” he said.<\/p>\n