The Electoral Commission (EC) has turned down a request by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to disclose the serial numbers of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits used for the limited voter registration exercise.
The NDC had earlier sought the release of the serial numbers of the kits currently in use for the ongoing exercise.
“Releasing these serial numbers to any external parties, including political entities, poses a substantial risk to the security and integrity of our registration processes. That is why this has never been done since the biometric voting system was introduced in Ghana” the EC’s statement said.
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According to the EC, it has nothing to hide in the ongoing registration process and has decided not to make serial numbers public for the risk involved in revealing them is high.
