The Electoral Commission (EC) insists that the confusion that rocked the collation of results in some constituencies in the just-ended general elections was largely caused by the disruption of collation exercises at collation centres by party supporters.
Some party supporters besieged some constituency collation centres in response to instructions from their party leaders, causing confusion and in some cases destroying property including electoral materials.
This is in spite of the fact that collation centres are restricted to accredited party agents, media personnel, EC officials and other observers.
The Deputy Director of Research at the Electoral Commission (EC), Fred Tetteh, says these invasions made it necessary to re-collate some of the results since the commission was unable to complete its work.