Names missing from register as special voting takes off Tuesday
Security personnel and staff of the Electoral Commission (EC), who would be on duty on December 7, are voting 72 hours ahead.
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Mr Gilbert Asante, Deputy Returning Officer at the centre, said those whose names were not on the electoral roll could still cast their ballot on election day.
He said the hitch might have been caused by the non-submission of voter identification (ID) cards by the officers to their headquarters during the compilation of names of the early voters.
The affected officers, however, expressed anxiety that they might after all not be able to exercise their franchise.
This is because they are likely to be deployed to polling centres outside constituencies where they registered.
A total of 1,540 officers are expected to vote at the Subin sub-metro centre and as of 10am, when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited, 350 of them had already voted.
Voting, which started at exactly 7am, had so far been smooth with the verification machines working very well.
Special voting takes of smoothly in C/R
Special voting by security agencies and officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) took off smoothly in all the 23 constituencies in the Central Region on Tuesday.
Security personnel from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Prison Service and EC officials queued at the Police Headquarters polling centre in the Cape Coast North constituency and at the Fire Service Headquarters in the Cape Coast South constituency, to exercise their franchise.
It was observed at the Regional Police headquarters that 117 personnel had voted out of 656 eligible voters by 9am at the centre while at the Fire Service Headquarters, 85 out of 435 personnel had voted as at 9:14am
Mr Anthony Nyame, Cape Coast Metropolitan Director of the EC, told GNA that voting started exactly at 7am and that there were enough voting materials for the exercise.
He said agents of political parties contesting the December 7 polls were present to observe the exercise.
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