The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it is working to tighten the way election results are transmitted and managed ahead of upcoming polls by reviewing Constitutional Instrument 127 (CI 127), the law that governs the conduct of elections.
The EC’s Director of Electoral Services, Samuel Dottoh Kwaah, announced this at an inter-party forum organised by the National Peace Council (NPC) in Accra on Tuesday, August 11.
He stated that the review will back efforts to improve results transmission, including setting up a dedicated portal for uploading scanned copies of results. “There’s a need to address some of the challenges from now on.
“In addressing some of these challenges, we have to come out with certain policies and plans to ensure that we don’t entertain what happened in 2024. The first thing will start from the collation centres on the way and manner people disrupt ballot papers and result forms because at that time we didn’t have a portal where the scanned results could be sent.”
“Going forward, the Commission plans to ensure that scanned results will be sent to a dedicated portal. When that happens, there’s a need to review C. I 127, which regulates the conduct of general elections. We’ll invite the political parties to come up with their inputs once the Commission has finalised the review of the C.I. The physical results will be maintained,” he said.
