The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has requested an emergency meeting of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee over what it describes as an illegality; the printing of pink sheets without serial numbers. The NPP said it identified the anomaly when it visited Aero Vote, the company contracted to print the pink sheets for this year’s elections. The … Read more
The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) was negligent as far as its monitoring of the printing of error-riddled ballot papers for the parliamentary poll in the Ashanti Region is concerned, the Elections Director of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has said. The NPP has rejected the ballot papers because … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana must admit it erred in printing some ballot papers for parliamentary elections in the Ashanti Region and reprint the affected papers without hesitation, Kweku Asare, a US-based Ghanaian professor, has said. His comment follows the clarification given by the EC on the omission of the New Patriotic Party’s initials … Read more
The Electoral Commission has dismissed accusations by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that it has printed a ‘wrong logo’ for the party on the parliamentary ballot sheets for the 2016 elections. The Ashanti regional branch of the NPP first raised the concern in an interview with 3news.com indicating that whereas all the parties on the … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) sanctioned the logo it used on the 2016 parliamentary ballot sheets, hence the party has no basis to raise concerns after the printing process. “…High ranking officers of the party visited the printing houses regularly to monitor the process. At no point did they … Read more
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has debunked allegations by some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party that the Commission committed an error in the printing of the party’s logo on the notice of poll ahead of the December elections. The Commission, reacting to news that confusion broke out at its Ashanti Regional office of … Read more