2020 Elections: EC to begin voter transfer on October 20

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it will commence a voter transfer exercise from the 20th of October to the 26th of October 2020.

This is subject to the maturation of the Public Election Regulations 2020 (C.I. 127).

The exercise which permitted registrants to transfer votes from one constituency to the other before the voting day, will be operationalized differently this year.

Conventionally, an individual seeking to transfer vote, has to do so six months before the election.

This however cannot be executed in the match-up to the 2020 elections, since the voters’ register was compiled this year, and the time left to the polls, is littler than permissible by the Act.

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Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu the Majority Leader in parliament says due to the timelines the C.I.94 will be amended to that effect.

 “In the original statutes, voters’ cannot transfer their votes within 12 months leading to elections. That’s the statutes but this year, after they the Commission finished the compilation of the register, it is left with less than six months to the elections.”

“So strictly and technically if you want to transfer, you may not be able to transfer and yet for the students, in particular, we may have to make provision for them which will mean an amendment of C.I. 94.”

The EC has completed the Voters registration exercise says so far, 16,963,306 persons.

However, some 35,000 applicants have had their eligibility being challenged.