The Electoral Commission (EC) has released the ballot statistics to guide the printing of presidential and parliamentary ballot papers for the conduct of the December 7, 2024 general election.
Per the data published by the Commission, a total of 19,149, 287 ballot papers are to be printed for each of the presidential and parliamentary elections across the 40,975 polling stations.
The figure is a two percentage increase of the 18,772,809 voters on the provisional register for the pending elections.
In a statement issued in Accra yesterday, the EC said that the methodology of adding a percentage increase has been used by the Commission to guide the printing of ballots since 1992. "The Commission is confident that the methodology relied upon, that is utilising the total number of voters on the Provisional Voters Register plus a two per cent increase to guide the printing of ballots, is adequate and will not result in shortfalls or unnecessary wastage," the statement signed by Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chair, Operations, explained.