To increase transparency in the 2024 General Election, the Electoral Commission (EC) plans to show results from the various polling places on a specific online portable.
The public can access the portal in real time, and the Commission announced that it will show scanned, signed pink sheets there.
In order to prepare for the general election of 2024, the Electoral Commission’s chairperson, Mrs. Jane Mensa, revealed this information at a stakeholder meeting following the 2020 general election.
The National Peace Council hosted the gathering, which took place on Thursday in Peduase in the Eastern Region.
According to Ms. Jean Mensa, the choice to make polling place results public would encourage participation and involve voters all the way through the electoral process.
“We intend to display the results from the polling station on a dedicated portal. This proposal aligns with the EU Observer Mission recommendation. For the first time in our history, we posted results from the 16 Regions and 275 Constituencies in real time.
“This time around, we plan to display the scanned signed pink sheets on a dedicated portal. We are confident that this arrangement will promote transparency and engender further trust and confidence in our electoral processes,” she said.
In order to improve transparency and guarantee that the counting was completed during the day, the EC also suggested closing polls at 15:00.
The Commission said that because multiple polling places were set up to expedite the process, experience from the 2020 election showed that by 13:00 hours, roughly 70% of polling places were devoid of voters.
According to Ms. Mensa, the EC planned to establish a large number of polling places and make sure that each one had no more than 500 voters in order to shorten the voting period.
“We are convinced that closing the polls at 3:pm will enable counting and collating to take place in broad daylight and promote the needed transparency and orderliness we so desire. We trust that our Parliament will support this drive to ensure greater transparency and orderliness in our electoral process,” Mrs Mensa said.
