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Voting generally peaceful in Cape Coast, environs

Voting was smooth in various polling stations in the Cape Coast South and the Mfantseman constituencies of the Central Region.

At 7.05 a:m voting had began in the Wise way polling station in Cape Coast.

The presiding officer at the station, Mr Assibu, said all materials were set for the exercise.

There was a fairly long queue looking on as electoral officials set up for the voting to begin.

At the NVTI polling station at Biriwa in the Mfantseman Constituency, a long winding queue of voters sat on chairs and waited to cast their votes.

Voting started around 7.30 am at the station and the presiding officer, Mr Isaac Davies, said seven persons had already cast their votes.

There were no incidents and party agents of the Progressive Peoples’ Party (PPP), New Patriotic Party (NPP), National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) were there to monitor the elections.

At the Kormantse JHS polling station, 64 voters had cast their votes as of 8.20am.

The presiding officer at the polling station, Mr Joseph Lokko, said materials were received on time and the exercise went on smoothly without any hitches.

At the Kormantse Methodist one polling station, 101 voters had voted as of 8.30am and no incidents were recorded.

Mr Joseph Ransford Asmah said there were no issues to be worried about as exercise was going on smoothly.

At the Ahmaddiyya Primary 1A poling station at Saltpond, 119 of the expected 583 persons had voted.

By noon many of the long queues at the stations had reduced considerably.

Mr Albert Ninson, presiding officer at the Old Methodist Church two polling station at Mankessim noted that 115 of the expected 358 voters had cast their vote by 10 am.

He described the exercise as smooth and peaceful.

At the old Methodist Church One polling station, 170 out of the 625 voters had voted by 10.15am.

Meanwhile, Mr Francis Bold-Quainoo reports from Awutu Senya East that  voting was generally peacefully.

At the Steps to Christ polling centre some voters spent Thursday night at the centre. Voting at the station started exactly at 7.05am.

Some registered voters also did not know where to vote. There were two streams of A and B polling centres and that created a lot of confusion.

However, the police officers with the presiding officer managed to control the situation by using the name lists which were arranged in alphabetical order.

At Abeasi, ballot boxes were sealed at 7.28am for voting to start. Many voters turned up to cast their votes in a peaceful manner.

The presiding officer tried to help the aged, pregnant women and persons with disabilities to vote without joining the queue.

At the Universal Petrol Station, voting started at 8.30 due to the delay in arrival of electoral materials to the centre. Many people turned up to vote and there were long queues as a result of the late start.

At the Bishop McCaua Preparatory School and JHS, the atmosphere was calm and no problems were encountered.

The atmosphere at the Walantu Pentecost School was orderly, but the station encountered biometric verification machine problems as at 10.07am.

The electoral officer in charge of the centre explained that sometimes it the machine went off and within a short time possible it came by itself. The only problem was thart voting was found to be very slow. As at 10.25am only 153 voters out of 1922 valid voters had cast their votes.

At the  Little Rock Prep School, the polling station which is just behind the Kasoa Police station, the atmosphere was cool as at 9.10am that l visited the centre.

At the Great Promise Preparatory School many voters had queued by 7.30am.

The queue was formed outside the voting centre so the voters could not see what was going on inside the premises. Few voters were sent inside and the arrangement to group them into  A and B sections delayed voting .

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