The Electoral Commission (EC) has been criticized by the Coalition of District Election Observers (CODEO) for its inability to guarantee the seamless and effective administration of the district-level elections.
The elections were postponed because to technical concerns with the voting machines and printing, which were mostly present in the Ashanti and Eastern regions, according to CODEO. The Electoral Commission announced that impacted voters would be able to cast their ballots on December 21, 2023.
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The New Democratic Congress Party's (NDC) deputy general secretary, Mustapha Gbande, charged that the Electoral Commission had acted with blatant incompetence when managing the District Level elections. He took issue with the commission's declarations of preparedness in light of problems with contracted vendors' deliveries.
"Now if you have contracted vendors 12 hours into an exercise, delivery has not been made, yet you have assured the whole country you are ready. It means you are not competent," Gbande remarked.
CODEO's National Coordinator, Albert Arhin, criticized the Electoral Commission for inadequate due diligence, leading to inaccuracies in the names on the ballot papers. Arhin emphasized that the printing of the ballot papers should have been completed well in advance of the election to allow for quality checks and corrections.
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"For example, if it’s Kofi Arhin, it’s Evans Mensah who is under the picture. So you know, these are some of the mistakes that tell you that the printing should have started way back to allow for mistakes that have been made to be corrected," Arhin explained.
In response to the election issues, the EC expressed hope for a high voter turnout in the affected areas and assured that the mistakes leading to the postponement would not be repeated.
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