EC prepares to acquire biometric voter equipment
The Head of Public Affairs at the Electoral Commission (EC), Christian Owusu Parry has announced that the commission is preparing to acquire a biometric voter equipment by February 2012, to start the biometric voter registration in the first quarter of 2012.
He said a committee was currently working on the technical aspect of the acquisition process, adding, the EC had accepted to introduce the biometric registration since it would help check double registration and eliminate ghost names in the Voters’ Register.
Speaking at the launching of the Centre for African Elections Media Monitoring Index (CAEMMI) on Wednesday, Mr Parry said the EC would roll out various activities including media education starting from January on the various radio and television stations to inform the electorate on Election 2012.
He said verification equipment would be installed at polling stations to aid in the transparency of the process, adding, vigilance was required from everybody at the polling stations to monitor the system.
CAEMMI is a non-profit, independent international organisation committed to democracy and governance processes in Africa by engaging elections media monitoring intelligence tools in media research.
Executive Director of CAEMMI, Dr Messan Mawugbe, Executive Director of CAEMMI, said a recent research undertaken by centre between September and October this year revealed that 65 per cent of Election 2012 issues in the media were negative whereas only 35 per cent were positive.
He added that the EC’s image projection in the media was 61 per cent highly negative, while mistrust on the preparation of the EC in Election 2012 is 50 per cent with only 18 per cent trust.
Dr Mawugbe noted that the was the need for a well trained and well renumerated media employees as well as committed, disciplined and honest political leadership to ensure a democratic atmosphere and effective gate keeping role by both parties.
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