Dr Bossman Asare Announces New EC Measures for Declaring Elections

The Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Eric Bossman Asare, has disclosed that the presidential results in all 16 regions would be declared at the commission’s regional headquarters before being announced at the national headquarters.

This procedure differs from the previous method, in which only parliamentary results were announced at the polls, and presidential results were announced at the national headquarters.

Dr Asare says this new method is to improve the transparency of the elections. 

The Deputy Chairperson of the EC made the announcement at the launch of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) monitoring system in Accra on Thursday, October 16, 2024.

He said the EC was committed to ensuring a free and fair election and had thus taken steps to ensure that the public’s confidence in their processes does not wane.

"For the presidential election, after the polling station, all the results from the polling stations will be taken to the constituency coalition centres. So from the constituency coalition centre, then all the results will now go to the regional coalition centres.

"So what the commission is doing is that we are going to announce presidential results for each region. We will announce presidential results for each region. And the parties are well aware," he said at the event. 

The Electoral Commission also commenced its online re-exhibition of the provisional voters’ register from Tuesday, October 15, 2024 until Saturday, October 19, 2024.