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Togo EC turns down Ghana's request for voters' register

January 9, 2016 2:35 PM

The EC of Ghana has rejected calls for a new voters' register for the 2016 elections

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The Togolese Electoral Commission has turned down request from the Electoral Commission of Ghana asking for its voters' register due to claim that names of over 76, 000 Togolese are found in the Ghanaian register particularly in the Volta Region.

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The opposition New Patriotic Party has alleged it has discovered 76,286 potential names and faces of individuals in both Ghana and Togo register.

According to the party, the evidence is damning and shows that Ghana's register is bloated.

The party said, it remains concerned with the disparity in the total number of registered voters provided by the EC at different times during the 2012 election cycle.

In a response to the NPP, the EC of Ghana rejected calls for a new voters' register for the 2016 elections.

In a statement, the EC said the Panel set up to look into concerns surrounding the call for a new voter register "finds the arguments for a new register unconvincing and therefore does not recommend the replacement of the current voters’ register."

Below is the letter from the Togolese Electoral Commission to Electoral Commission of Ghana.