The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has developed a mobile phone-based system of voting to check the high incidents of rejected ballots during polls. The ‘Global System for Mobile Communication Balloting System’ is expected to an improvement on the current paper ballot system and also present a more efficient system to prevent … Read more
A Ghanaian professor based in the United States has launched a campaign to reduce the number of rejected ballots in Ghana’s election beginning with the 2016 edition. Dubbed the “rejected ballot challenge” Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare is hoping that through a comprehensive education programe the 2016 election will record less than one per cent of … Read more
The Table below provides the percentage of rejected ballots from 1992 to 2012. It also indicates the target rejection rate for 2016. 1992 3.6% 1996 1.5% 2000 (R1) (R2) 1.8%; 1.58% 2004 2.2% 2008 (R1) (R2) 2.4%; 1.02% 2012 2.3% 2016 —— {target is less than 1%} A ballot is rejected if it is cast … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it is hoping to reduce spoilt ballots during the upcoming December 7 elections to below one per cent by simplifying the voting process. The high number of rejected ballots recorded during national elections has been a major concern to stakeholders over the years and have been attributed to the … Read more