Special picture taking exercise was successful

THE Electoral Commission (EC) has described as successful the just ended special photo-taking exercise.
It said information gathered from the regions indicated that all went well and without complaints.
The EC had to undertake the exercise because the commission ran out of materials for taking photographs during the limited registration exercise.
The Public Affairs Director, Mr E. Opoku-Parry, in an interview with the Daily Graphic, attributed the success of the exercise to the fact that the EC knew the exact number of people to be catered for.
He said unlike the limited voter registration in which people who had already registered and had their cards missing or displaced, minors and foreigners bloated the estimated number the EC had planned for.
During the recent limited registration, the EC estimated that at most one million people would be registered but the number soared to a staggering 1,835,417. This increased the voter population from 10,354,970 to 12,822,474.
Mr Opoku-Parry appealed to Ghanaians to turn up in their numbers to check their particulars on the voters register during the exhibition exercise beginning from October 5 to 11.
He said they should check if the following were correct: Name, sex, photograph, age, date of birth as well as other particulars and their correct spellings.
He said they should also use the exhibition to delete names of people who were dead, minors, foreigners and double registration.
Mr Opoku-Parry said in this way, Ghanaians would be exercising their civic duty of helping to secure the integrity of the voters register.