The Electoral Commission has denied claims that it had
entered into a deal with Israeli company STL at Dzorwulu in the
Ayawaso-West Wuogon constituency, to
aid in its electronic transmission of results.
Some irate NPP supporters besieged the premises Saturday
alleging suspicious movements in and out of the private property by
members of the governing NDC party and some officials of the
EC.
It emerged in the confusion that the EC had engaged the
company to transmit results electronically but the NPP's Sammy
Awuku said his party was unaware.
Read below the full statement issued and signed by the EC
Chairman Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan:
The Commission’s attention has been drawn to allegations that
it has engaged the services of a company to do electronic
transmission and collation of results on its behalf. We wish to
state emphatically that no such engagement has been made, neither
is the Commission doing electronic transmission of
results.
The Commission wishes to inform the general public that the
transmission of results to its Head Office follows a clearly laid
down transparent process.
We wish to remind the public that ballots are counted openly
at the polling stations and the results are signed by the agents of
the parties, who are given copies of the signed results. The signed
copies of the polling station results are then sent physically to
the constituency collation centres, where collation of results is
done in the presence of agents of the parties.
At the end of the collation, the party representatives again
sign and receive copies of the constituency results sheets. Copies
of the signed declaration of results are sent to the Regional
Offices of the Commission, from where they are faxed directly to
the Operations Room of the Commission.
The public is informed that currently there are
representatives of the parties in the Commission’s operations room
who are receiving and checking the results before endorsing them by
signing. Indeed, copies of the results are made for them before a
copy is sent to the Chairman of the Commission for his
signature.
In some instances, party representatives in the operations
room have called their agents in the constituencies to cross check
the result before signing them.
The procedure for the transmission of election results to the
operations room is therefore thoroughly transparent and does not
lend itself to manipulation.
The Commission wishes to reiterate that election results are
signed and sent by fax and no company has been engaged for any such
undertaking.
We wish to assure the nation that we will continue to use the
transparent and verifiable approach of transmitting results and
further assure that no results can be manipulated.
DR. K. AFARI GYAN CHAIRMAN
