Earlier this year, on January 9, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA), in separate petitions to the Electoral Commission, called for reforms regarding the voting date, which falls on Saturday, a day the church observes as holy and dedicated to God's worship.
The church, in a few concerns raised, wants the election date of December 7 every four years changed to the 1st or 2nd of November in every election year.
They consider the proposed dates viable, referencing the work of the Constitutional Review Commission in 2011 and the Electoral Reform Committee in 2015.
Given this, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, an astute member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has appealed to the church to encourage its members to come out and vote while calling on the Electoral Commission and lawmakers to take a critical look at their petition.