The majority of Journalists may not be able to vote under the special voting come December first,2020.
This was made known by the General Secretary of the Ghana Journalists Association(GJA), Mr. Kofi Yeboah. This challenge is due to the fact that the details of some journalists for the special voting are missing from the Special voting list.
The GJA after a stakeholder consultation meeting with the Electoral Commission has resolved to allow journalists a special dispensation on the day of election since they cannot vote as special voters on December 2020.
“Once the list was published, the EC didn’t have to tell us that if you didn’t get the chance to vote on the 1st, the next thing will be for you to vote on the 7th of December. The point is, the list was published and it was not as though we were given the list earlier.
“There was no provisional list otherwise, we’d have seen the anomalies and had it rectified. It’s not the best that journalists can’t vote early because I have had a personal experience as a journalist and the inconvenience wasn’t a good thing,”
In a follow-up reaction, the Director of Electoral Services, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe said majority of journalists who filed for the Special voting have been captured by the Commission’s lists.
He said;
“We have captured majority of the people who registered for Special voting. Over 109,000 names have been captured and that is the Majority. For the situation with the GJA I think journalists should ask from where they sent their names. They had issues with the compilation of the details of their members”.
The Commission on November 9, released the list of Special voters on November 9, 2020.
These revelations were made on Starrfms morning show hosted by Francis Abban, which was monitored by MynewsGhana.net
Source:MynewsGhana