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Proposed Regulations By EC Will Disenfranchise Voters – NDC

Kennedy Opoku by Kennedy Opoku
September 20, 2022
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says proposed Regulations by the Electoral Commission (EC) will undermine Ghana’s democracy if allowed to pass.

According to the National Chairman of the Party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo  revealed that upon a careful study of the draft regulations, he said, the NDC has discovered that Regulation 1(3) states that “A person who applies for registration as a voter shall provide as evidence of identification the National Identity Card issued by National Identification Authority.”

He said, the Party finds this regulations problematic because it seeks to make the Ghana card the only source document which will radically change the current regime for proving a person’s identity for voter registration purposes.

Citing the existing regulation, Mr. Ofosu Ampofo said, the proposed regulation gravely differs from the old Instrument which had flexible identification for voter registration.

“Under the current regulations i.e. C.I. 126, a person who qualifies to register as a voter may prove his or her identity by either presenting a valid Ghana passport, a national identity card (not national identity card issued by the National Identification Authority as proposed in this C.I.), or a voter registration identification form signed by two registered voters within the community.

“What the EC proposes to do with the new C.I. is to eliminate the two other sources of proof of identity i.e. the Ghana passport and the guarantee system leaving the Ghana Card as the only means of identity,” Mr Ofosu Ampofo said at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday September 20.

He added “The second implication is that the regulation flies in the face of Article 42 of the Constitution which states as follows: ‘Every citizen of Ghana of Eighteen years or above and of sound mind has the right to vote and is entitled to be registered as a voter for the purpose of public elections and referenda.’

“This clearly makes the proposed provision unconstitutional. What it means is that if the C.I. is passed in its current form, it will not only be unconstitutional, it will radically disenfranchise all those prospective voters who for no fault of theirs are unable to obtain the national ID card issued by the National Identification Authority (NIA).

“They would have been denied the right provided for them under Article 42 of the 1992 Constitution.”

“The 1992 Constitution provides only three conditions for registration as a voter; The person has to be a citizen of Ghana; The person must be of sound mind; The person must be eighteen years old or above.

“Therefore, no subsidiary legislation can be used to undermine this provision. That is the reason why since the inception of the Fourth Republic, all regulations governing registration of voters have always provided the guarantee system in order to take account of all qualified persons who for one reason or the other do not possess the requirements. To remove this provision from the C.I. and make the Ghana Card the sole requirement for registration is to deny all such persons the right to register and vote and this is a complete breach and violation of Article 42 of the Constitution and so therefore is unconstitutional.”

 

Source: theGhanaianvoice.com

 

 

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Kennedy Sampene Opoku is the Deputy Editor of TheGhanaianVoice.Com, and he is based in Tema, Ghana. Kennedy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies (Journalism major) from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.

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