The Electoral Commission has in consultation with the Prisons Authorities scheduled the biometric voter registration of prisoners for Tuesday 29th May, 2012.
The Commission will accordingly send a registration team to each of the forty-three prisons in the country for the exercise. Political parties may contact Regional Directors in their respective regions to make the necessary arrangements to enable their agents observe the registration exercise in the prisons.
The Commission also announces for the information of the general public that it will embark on a two day mop up exercise for the biometric voter registration in selected registration centres that have been identified as requiring a mop up. The exercise will take place on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of June, 2012.
The mop up is to give qualified applicants who could not register during the forty days registration exercise due to operational challenges in the affected registration centres the opportunity to register as voters.
The registration centres involved will be published in the media soon.
Qualified applicants in the affected centres who have not yet registered are to take note and avail themselves of this opportunity.
The public is cautioned against attempts to register again since that will amount to double registration. All cases of double registrations will be detected and the culprits will be dealt with in accordance with law.
C. OWUSU-PARRY
AG. DIRECTOR, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
for: CHAIRMAN