For adding new errors to the originally detected one, the Electoral Commission will lose in court if sued by any of the political parties that has been given up to 5pm Tuesday, 8 November to correct mistakes made on the nomination forms of their flag bearers, former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Ocquaye … Read more
Presidential candidates for the 2016 elections will know their position on the balloting paper by November 10, 2016. This was contained in a press release by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana on Monday, November 7, after it studied the judgement delivered by the Supreme Court which directed the election conducting body to allow all … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is considering dragging the Electoral Commission (EC) to court today, Tuesday, 8 November over 105 new errors, which the election management body says it has detected on the forms of flag bearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom. Lawyer for the PPP, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, told Class FM’s Inside Politics host Moro … Read more
Ghanaians cannot suffer the “dumbness” and “incompetence” of the Chair of the Electoral Commission any longer since this year’s general elections are just a month away, political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baah has said in reaction to the election management body’s detection of 105 … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is considering dragging the Electoral Commission (EC) to court today, Tuesday, 8 November over 105 new errors, which the election management body says it has detected on the forms of flag bearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom. Lawyer for the PPP, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, told Class FM’s Inside Politics host Moro … Read more
Disqualified presidential nominees given opportunity by Supreme Court to correct anomalies Ghana’s disqualified presidential nominees of some political parties were on Monday given a little over 24-hour opportunity by the Supreme Court to correct anomalies on their nomination forms that led to their disqualification by the Electoral Commission. Our cartoonist, Tilapia, gives a humorous twist … Read more
The Supreme Court, per its unanimous ruling on the struggle between the Progressive People’s Party’s Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom and the Electoral Commission, over the former’s disqualification from the 2016 presidential race, has shown the Electoral Commission its real size, law lecturer at the Ghana School of Law, Maxwell Opoku Agyemang has said. A 7-member … Read more
Some political parties that thronged the offices of the Electoral Commission to correct mistakes on their nomination forms on Monday, 7 November following a ruling by the Supreme Court to that effect, have accused the election management body of being bent on disqualifying them with delay tactics. Representatives of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), People’s … Read more
The two candidates are making a last-minute dash across swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina as the 2016 presidential race enters its final hours. They’ve also gone north to Michigan and New Hampshire to states Democrats have won in recent cycles but could flip this year. Most plausible paths to victory for Trump … Read more
Presidential Candidate for the People’s National Congress, Dr. Edward Mahama says the Electoral Commission (EC) has caused him a lot of grief after disqualifying him from contesting in the December polls. He said the major plans they had as a party to campaign across the regions of the country were severely disrupted after EC disqualified … Read more
Hate speech seeps into U. S. mainstream amid bitter campaign The lettering is crude, scrawled in black spray paint on the sidewalk in front of Karen Peters’ neatly kept home in the quiet, working class neighborhood where she’s lived most of her life. But the contempt is clear. “KKK Bitch.” The racially charged graffiti appeared … Read more
Personnel from the U. S. Justice Department’s civil rights division will be deployed to polling sites in 28 states to monitor Tuesday’s election, five more than it monitored in the 2012 election, the department said on Monday. Most of those states will receive Justice Department staff who have no statutory authority to access polling sites … Read more
Flag bearer of the People’s National Convention, Dr Edward Mahama, has saluted the Supreme Court for directing the Electoral Commission (EC) to give suspended flag bearers the opportunity to make corrections on their nomination forms for which reason they were disqualified from taking part in the 2016 presidential elections A 7-member Supreme Court panel presided … Read more
Mrs Charlotte Osei, Chair of the Electoral Commission needs the assistance and experience of her predecessor Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan to help her conduct the 2016 general elections, flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Mr Hassan Ayariga has said. “The lady [Charlotte Osei] needs Afari Gyan to come onboard. … I think Afari … Read more
The judgment handed by the Supreme Court of Ghana ordering the Electoral Commission (EC) to allow disqualified flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, to get back into the presidential race is victory for democracy, Thaddeus Sory, lawyer for the EC has said. The apex court on Monday, 7 November also … Read more
Policy Advisor of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Mr Kofi Asamoah-Siaw has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of rigging the 7 December polls for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) by fighting the PPP in court while the flag bearers of the two main parties had a … Read more
Mrs Charlotte Osei, Chair of the Electoral Commission needs the assistance and experience of her predecessor Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan to help her conduct the 2016 general elections, flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Mr Hassan Ayariga has said. “The lady [Charlotte Osei] needs Afari Gyan to come onboard. … I think Afari … Read more
A 7-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Sophia Adinyira by unanimous decision, has upheld a High Court ruling ordering the Electoral Commission to allow disqualified flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, to get back into the presidential race. The apex court on Monday, 7 November also ordered the … Read more
President John Mahama is optimistic the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will capture at least 13 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region in addition to the one million votes the party is vying for. He expressed confidence in the party’s performance in the region as he set his target ahead of the 2016 elections. Addressing NDC … Read more
Just over a week after FBI Director James Comey rolled a grenade into the presidential race by announcing the arrival of new evidence in the Hillary Clinton email probe, he offered what amounted to a “never mind” Sunday, notifying Congress that the newly discovered messages wouldn’t change the bureau’s conclusion that no prosecution of Clinton … Read more