The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Pyne, has alleged that the Electoral Commission is deleting names of their supporters who did not register with National Health Insurance (NHIS) cards from the system including some constituency executives of the party.

According to him, the NDC is conniving with the electoral body to manipulate the system.

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The exercise has however recorded low turnout throughout the country. Sam Pyne believes the EC should be blamed for the low turnout.

“I am not impressed at all the attendance is very low, and one I can attribute it to lack of awareness by the electoral commission and those who are supposed to make the information available to the public, making publications in the newspapers was simply not enough, how many people have been reading the papers, am also not happy with the process that they are going through,” he told Kumasi-based Ultimate FM.

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“Historically, the data of the EC suggests that whenever they there is any exhibition till 1992 till date, the percentage of people who patronize is just too abysmal, less than 40% always so why would you want to use this as a process in cleaning the register, because you have the history that people have not been patronizing such exercises then again there have been instances where people’s names have been deleted because they said they used NHIS cards in registering when it’s not so.

“I can give you examples about three is my constituency officers have suffered this fate, when they know they used the old voters’ cards to register, these are some of the things they should look at,” the NPP Regional Chairman added.

Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission has since denied the allegations.