The Electoral Commission (EC) yesterday announced that it has destroyed excess and defective electoral materials through shredding for the Ahafo and Volta regions ahead of the 2024 general elections.
To this end, the EC said it would reprint the ballot papers for the Ahafo and Volta regions for the December 7, 2024 election. • Mr Samuel Tettey It said the decision to reprint ballots for the two regions was to uphold electoral professionalism and maintain global standards; having found that one of the printing houses encountered challenges with the serialisation of the ballots. "Our audit revealed that the printing house which was printing the ballots for Ahafo and Volta had encountered a number of challenges. "While the printing of the ballots had gone on seamlessly, the serialisation which was supposed to be done through an automated system to provide serial numbers based on a sequence had gaps.
As a result, a manual system was adopted by the printing house to fill the gaps," the Commission said in a statement.
Signed by Samuel Tettey, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of operations in Accra on Saturday, the EC said "upon further assessment, the Commission decided the manual process was not fool-proof and could therefore not be relied on to produce an accurate serialisation of ballots".