The Electoral Commission has denied allegations that it
has contracted an organisation to
collate results on its behalf.
It explained that the ballots are counted openly at the
polling stations and the results are signed by agents of the
parties, who are given copies of the signed results.
In a statement, EC Chairman, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan said “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 statement said.he
statement, signed by the EC Chairman said, the the transmission of
results to its Head Office follows a clearly laid down transparent
process.
“The signed copies of the polling station results are sent
physically to the constituency collation centres, where collation of results is done in the presence of
agents of the parties,” the statement explained
further.
It added that after the results had been collated, the party
representatives sign and receive copies of the constituency results
sheets after which copies of the signed sheets 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”,
it added.
It added that in some instances, party representatives in the
operations room have called their agents in the constituencies to
cross check the results before signing them.
The statement said the procedure for the transmission of
election results to the operations room was 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” the statement
noted.
“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”.
