Dr. Afari Gyan EC Chairman unequivocally said: “Let me also share with you some of the firm decisions we have taken together with the political parties. Now it has become errrm a sing song almost in the street. NVNV! No Verification No Voting! And, by verification we mean that everybody will have to be verified biometrically; except those voters who fall into 2 categories. We know that some of our brothers and sisters who have no hands at all so we cannot, but they are Ghanaians and are entitled to vote. We also know from experience in the field that there were people who had fingers, but we could not capture their fingerprints. Alright, the first category, no fingers at all, we classified them as people who suffer from permanent trauma. People who had fingers but we couldn’t capture their fingerprints, we say you are suffering from temporary trauma. These 2 categories of people are known to the verification machine. We will see F/O; F/O alongside the picture. F/O means ‘face only’. In other words, you are not going to ask when you see ‘FO’ alongside somebody’s picture, you don’t ask for fingerprint. OK? They are in a very small minority, but the rest of us, all of us, will have to be verified not only by our looks but also by our fingerprints, OK? Alright! We have agreed in principle that where the votes found in the ballot box outnumber the persons verified to vote, the result of that polling station will be cancelled. And, somebody asked, what happens if the result is cancelled? We will re-run the election if it will make a difference.”
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:33:56 +0000
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