Special Voting For Election 2024 To Be Held December 2, Electoral Commission Outlines Criteria

Special Voting For Election 2024 To Be Held December 2, Electoral Commission Outlines Criteria

  • The Electoral Commission will hold a special voting session on December 2, 2024, for select professionals
  • To be eligible for special voting, individuals and organisations must submit applications between June 17 and July 1, 2024
  • All prospective applicants for special voting are to apply to their constituency returning officer

The Electoral Commission will hold a special voting for election 2024 on December 2, 2024.

Special voting is a provision that allows a specific group of registered voters, including journalists and security agencies, to cast their votes before the general voting day.

Special Voting To Be Held December 2
All prospective applicants for special voting are to apply to their constituency returning officer
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Individuals and organisations must submit applications between June 17 and July 1, 2024, to be eligible for special voting, providing evidence that they will be engaged on Election Day.

Jean Mensa, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, made this announcement during a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, May 28, 2020.

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What else is on the Electoral Commission calendar?

A nationwide exercise to replace missing voter ID cards will start on May 30, 2024, right after continuous registration ends.

The commission intends to submit the provisional voters’ register to the political parties between July 9 and 18, 2024.

The voters register exhibition will follow this register between July 15 and 24, 2024.

Aspirants will present election nomination forms from September 9 to September 13, 2024.

Balloting will take place on September 23, 2024, and the parliamentary balloting is set for September 24, 2024.

The commission expects to declare the results of the 2024 presidential polls within three days of the voting day.

The final voter register will be submitted to the political parties between August 30 and September 5, 2024.

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It will be opened to security agencies and accredited media practitioners performing duties on election day, December 7, 2024.

EC replies to claim that 7 BVDs are stolen

YEN.com.gh reported that the Electoral Commission said none of its Biometric Verification Devices had been stolen, despite concerns by some observers.

Dr Bossman Asare, instead, revealed that five of the EC's laptops had been stolen, and the police are working to retrieve them.

He assured that the stolen laptops would not threaten the integrity of the general elections.

Proofread by Berlinda Entsie, journalist and copy editor at YEN.com.gh

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Delali Adogla-Bessa (Current Affairs Editor) Delali Adogla-Bessa is a Current Affairs Editor with YEN.com.gh. Delali previously worked as a freelance journalist in Ghana and has over seven years of experience in media, primarily with Citi FM, Equal Times, Ubuntu Times. Delali also volunteers with the Ghana Institute of Language Literacy and Bible Translation, where he documents efforts to preserve local languages. He graduated from the University of Ghana in 2014 with a BA in Information Studies. Email: delali.adogla-bessa@yen.com.gh.