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The Ashanti regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party has refused to accept the parliamentary ballot papers sent to the region over what he calls some anomalies on the paper.
The ballots for the region arrived in Kumasi Sunday night and the representatives of the various parties gathered to assess them Monday morning.
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But the NPP regional chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako said the ballot did not have NPP initials printed on it as the other parties have.
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According to him, apart from the logo printed on the ballot paper, there is no indication of the party to which the logo belongs.
The issue created confusion at the Electoral Commission Ashanti regional office on Monday, with the NPP feeling they are being cheated.
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Meanwhile, the EC in the Ashanti region said it will communicate the incident to the Accra EC headquarters for a solution.
“We will communicate to our head office and get back to you,” Mr. Siriboe Quaicoe, the EC director in the region told the NPP regional chairman.