The Electoral Commission has said it is optimistic that the results of presidential and parliamentary elections would be announced within three days of the casting of the ballot.
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Results will be declared 72 hours after polls close - EC
Madam Charlotte Osei who was addressing members of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs in Kumasi on Wednesday said the use of manual and electronic transmission of results will enable the EC collate and declare results within 72 hours.
“We are confident that we can still get all the results and declare within two maximum three days so we vote on December 7, by 10th of December, we get all the results announced", she stressed.
According to her, only the manual transmission of results is presently backed by law.
She said the Commission will seek the support of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) to select a suitable telecom company for the implementation of the Electronic Transmission System alongside the manual system.
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“We are now evaluating the tender of the telecom process. We will go back to IPAC and explain to them for consensus to be reached,” she added.
Meanwhile, the EC Chair has indicated that the final voter's register which will be made available to the political parties next week will contain close to 16 million voters.
“The register has now been finalised; we have implemented all the decisions and we are in a good place and, so, they (political parties) will have the register at the end of this week. We will probably have an approximately 15,800,000 names thereabout on the register going into the elections,” she said.
According to the EC Chair, the list of the polling stations would also be ready by Friday, October 28, 2016.
She further indicated that the list would also be made available on the EC’s website and also be made available to security agencies to ensure a transparent election in December.
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Mrs Osei added that no polling station would hold more than 850 voters in this year's polls.
The move, she believes, would ease pressure on verification and vote counting machines on the Election Day.
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