The Ghana Police Service, in partnership with the Eastern Regional Elections Security Taskforce, oversaw the destruction of defective ballot papers recalled by the Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday, December 3.
The exercise was conducted under the close supervision of constituency election directors from all political parties. These officials monitored the process from the secure armories where the ballots were stored to the regional disposal site along the Akwadum road.
Due to the defects, the EC suspended the Special Voting exercise for the Eastern and Western regions.
Except for the Afram Plains North and South Constituencies, all 31 remaining constituencies submitted their presidential and parliamentary ballots for destruction.
John Appiah Baffour, the Eastern Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, expressed satisfaction with the process, stating:
“The exercise has been very successful. Actually, we brought all the parties together and the constituency executives of the NPP, NDC, and CPP, and all of them have been here. They checked the seals on the ballot paper bags, and they saw that everything was intact before we offloaded them and burned them. So it has been very successful.”
