Election 2024: Electoral Commission Releases List Of Printing Houses For Ballot Papers To Parties
- The Electoral Commission of Ghana has released the list of printing houses for the 2024 election
- The commission will commence printing notices of poll and ballot papers on Friday, October 11, 2024
- In a letter to parties, the commission noted that the printing will take place at eight publishing companies
The Electoral Commission has released the list of printing houses for the 2024 election.
The commission will commence printing notices of poll and ballot papers on Friday, October 11, 2024.
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In a letter to the parties sighted by YEN.com.gh, the commission noted that the printing will take place at eight publishing companies.
These are Secprint Ltd, Acts Commercials, Ghana Publishing Company, Buck Press, Ofankor, Innolink Limited, Fonstat Limited, Check Point Limited and Yasarko Company Limited.
In line with this, the commission asked that party agents report to the commission on October 10 for orientation before printing the ballots.
13 presidential aspirants passed vetting
The presidential ballot will have 13 candidates who were recently approved to contest the 2024 presidential elections.
Four independent candidates are contesting the polls, including Alan Kyerematen and Nana Kwame Bediako.
The leading candidates, Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), were approved.
The complete list of approved candidates can be viewed here.
Eleven presidential aspirants were disqualified from contesting the election because they failed to correct errors on their nomination forms.
Thirty-nine persons initially picked up nomination forms to contest the 2024 general election.
EC releases data in provisional voter register
YEN.com.gh reported that according to data from the Electoral Commission, the provisional voter register has 18,772,795 valid voters.
The Electoral Commission data indicated that 9,690,173 of the voters are female, while 9,082,622 are male.
The Electoral Commission outlined the data at an Inter-Party Advisory Committee meeting in Accra on Tuesday, October 1.
The commission presented data showing that 708,282 new voters were added to the electoral roll.
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Source: YEN.com.gh
