EC’s statement on obsolete BVDs discovery “lies, half-truths, pure fantasies” – IMANI

The EC had explained that these devices were legally auctioned and had been acquired before the 2012 elections.

The think tank highlighted the EC’s previous assurance of having a “2 BVDs per polling station” policy, which would have resulted in over 70,000 devices in stock.

They also pointed out the EC’s assertion that they did not use any of the pre-existing devices in the 2020 mass voter registration exercise, despite video evidence suggesting otherwise.

The EC says that only 10 biometric verification devices (BVDs) were “auctioned”. And that they “found their way” into a recycling plant. The obvious questions that the media ought to ask are a) Before the EC jettisoned the existing system, it had told Parliament that it had implemented a “2 BVDs per polling station” policy and therefore had more than 70,000 BVDs in stock.”

“Then in 2020, it proceeded to buy a brand-new set of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits with corresponding BVD kits and swore (despite video evidence collected by Bright Simons) that they never used any of the pre-existing devices in the 2020 mass voter registration exercise

Why then did they auction only 10 out of the over 70,000 devices

Ghanaians who have been paying attention to the EC’s strange conduct under the current leadership know that the EC admitted to have lost some BVRs recently, but when pushed it insisted that they were only five in number