The sticking point in this whole stinking issue is why Nana Akufo-Addo, who strongly believes that the vote counting, the collation, and the declaration of results cannot and should not be more important than the sacred, God-given right of a citizen casting his or her ballot, now turn round to ask the Supreme Court (SC) to punish voters for the mistakes of the Presiding Officers? Why on earth will Nana Akufo-Addo wake up from bed with the false notion that some voters conspired with some presiding officers not to sign some pink sheets, and therefore go to court and demand that the votes in those affected polling stations must be discarded. Won’t that be a miscarriage of justice? Won’t that be visiting the “sins” of someone on another person? Won’t that be a retroactive or backdated penalty on innocent citizens as claimed by Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, counsel for the NDC? Will Akufo-Addo be happy to see that votes by innocent citizens who did not sign anything on the pink sheets are thrown away in order for him to become the president at all cost? This is simply unacceptable and must never be entertained by the Supreme Court. When a voter makes a mistake on a ballot sheet he/she gets punished by the EC when the ballot sheet is cancelled or rejected. That is what we all know. Why is it that Akufo-Addo is now trying to change the EC rules by asking the SC to cancel valid votes by citizens of Ghana because a Presiding Officer who they do not know, or did not hire failed to sign a pink sheet which he/she was hired to do? This case has no precedent in Ghana and therefore must never be entertained by the SC. The SC must never punish voters because of administrative errors of Presiding Officers! A. Aziz
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:55:29 +0000
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