Current voters’ register is sick, not fit for December polls – NDC

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that the current voter register cannot be used for the December 7 polls.

According to the Deputy Director of Elections and IT, Dr Rashid Tanko Computer, the voter register is fraught with mistakes and irregularities.

Dr. Rashid Tanko Computer argues that the register is not fit for the polls.

“There is more to it than what we are thinking. In fact, the register, as we speak now, is completely sick. It cannot be used for any purpose whatsoever, because you can have some consequences where you have the data completely quadrupled.

“There is no polling station that is going to have more than 700 [voters]. But you can have a polling station where you have a register reporting a transfer of more than 1,000 [voters]. It doesn’t make sense. There is something wrong with it [the voters’ register].”

The NDC on Tuesday, August 27, wrote to the EC demanding an emergency meeting to discuss what it said were discrepancies it found in the provisional register provided to political parties during the exhibition exercise.

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