Electoral Commission (EC)
Public Affairs Director Christian Owusu Parry has said the EC is
ready to investigate any credible petition on fraud
allegations.
He elaborated that if a party alleges, and it then becomes
obvious, that the vote tally sent to the EC from a constituency far
exceed the number of voters there, the EC will delay the
declaration of results until it can get to the bottom of the
discrepancy.
Otherwise, he announced, the EC will declare results as soon at it can, leaving the NPP the option to seek
redress in court.
Earlier Sunday afternoon, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had
accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of
colluding with EC officials to commit electoral fraud across the
country including overreporting the number of
ballots cast for NDC candidates.
Owusu Parry would not give an estimate of when the EC will
declare results, but he said that because malfunctions in voter
verification machines extended voting into Saturday, the 72-hour
maximum time frame for declaration
that it set for itself before the election no longer
applies.
He asked voters to be patient, explaining that because the EC
has to spend a considerable amount of time and effort verifying the
results of certain constituencies, the process can take a long
time.
