The of Ghana (EC) has reacted to the brouhaha over its memo to representatives of presidential candidates for the pending 2024 general elections, indicating shortfalls in the ballot papers for the presidential race in some constituencies in the Volta Region.
At an IPAC meeting on Friday, November 29, 2024, the commission debunked assertions that the shortfall of ballot papers in the Volta Region shows that something negative is happening.
The EC indicated that the shortage of the ballot papers had been recorded in other regions as well, including Greater Accra, Western North, Upper West, Western, and Bono East Regions, and in all these instances, the political parties were informed in writing just as in the case of the Volta Region and the reprinting was done to cover the shortfalls in those five regions.
The commission reiterated that it has nothing to hide as is being asserted by a faction of the public and its memo to the political parties on the shortfalls, forms part of its transparency and accountability mechanisms.