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Poor publicity responsible for low turnout - CODEO

The Limited Voters Registration exercise which began on Thursday, April 28 is aimed at capturing the details of Ghanaians who have turned 18 since the last election in 2012.

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“Publicity has been very low in this particular exercise. They [EC] have not come out [to do publicity]. In the first place they were late in coming out to do publicity. And then when they started, it was just on the radio and little bit on the television,” National Coordinator of CODEO Kofi Arhin told Joy News channel on Multi TV.

However, some new voters have so far been unable to register at various centers especially in the Ashanti, Eastern and Volta regions.

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At some polling centres, EC officials were having difficulties with new voters who come without proof that they are of age.

Apart from some polling centres experiencing faulty machines or shortage of voter registers, people who have lost their ID cards and want a new card is another challenge the officials in some polling stations are grappling with.

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