Voter Register Tricks On Ghanaians By EC And NDC --- NPP-USA

In order to undertake Election Day fraud and manipulate the election results, the Electoral Commission, at the instance of the NDC, starts with bloating the voters’ register with fake names, foreigners and minors, using the electronic medium.

Any attempt by the NPP to unravel this fraud machine meets stiff resistance from the EC and its alter ego, the NDC. A discussion of some of their tricks and traps even before the election itself will help us to understand the dangers ahead for Ghana.

PDF versus CSV File

The EC deliberately produces garbage of information and data in a portable document format (PDF) file and/or a paper copy of the PDF file. They deliberately refuse to produce a comma separated values (CSV) file which allows data to be saved in a table structure format, and enables queries and management of the data for verification and decision-making purposes. Despite repeated requests from the NPP, the EC has refused to produce the CSV file. Without the CSV file, no valuable information can be obtained for the election. NPP and the other parties cannot know the accuracy, validity, completeness and reliability of the voters’ register as presented in the PDF file by the EC. Thus the EC deliberately shirks its responsibility of producing a credible register, by producing garbage and useless information which they call a voters’ register.

No serious review, audit, update, or revision of the voters’ register can happen without issuing a CSV file to all interested parties to enable them know the starting point of where we are with the register. We are reminded that we will not know where we are going unless we know where we are coming from. The CSV file will let us know how many voters are in each polling station, their identity, ages, sexes, ID numbers etc. The same information can be obtained for each constituency, region and the nation as a whole.

We wish to remind you also that the EC has not produced statistics of the voters' register as a whole by nation, by region, by constituency, by polling station, by sex and by age. This is no accident. It is a lie of omission in order to perpetrate the fraud of bloating the register.

What is an Audit?

The EC wants to pull the wool over the eyes of the Ghanaian public by kicking part of their responsibility of making the final decision off to so-called professionals or experts to ‘AUDIT’ the voters’ register. However their understanding and definition of an audit is a blatant lie. An audit is a series of tests performed to produce an opinion of a situation. It is not an opportunity to remove names, revise numbers and produce separate figures. What the EC is proposing is nothing but a ‘kangaroo exercise”. No one should accept the fraudulent exercise that the EC wants to undertake against the interests of Ghanaians. It is a sham exercise and must be stopped.

The Number of Polling Stations

The EC has increased the number of polling stations from 26,000 to 30,000, without creating a completely new voters’ register. How does one assign the old voters to a new polling station and obtain the consent and approval of the old voter? This is a fraudulent exercise by the EC that will create confusion on Election Day, for the purpose of advancing the fraudulent scheme of manipulating the election results to the advantage of the NDC.

Removal of Names from the Voters’ Register

The EC wants to undertake the herculean task of reviewing a voters’ register of 14.7 million names, and deleting names based on information that is discretionary and open to abuse and fraud. This will be a tedious, time consuming, stressful, but still not reliable process. No amount of expertise, however genuine, honest, and accomplished can convince the Ghanaian public of the integrity of their work. It will be a sham and a farce that Ghanaians need not go through.

Security reasons

The EC is contending that undertaking a new voters’ registration exercise to produce a new and reliable register will lead to security problems in Ghana. This means seeking justice, fairness, and truthfulness takes second place to the so-called security concerns of the EC. But in actual fact an election with an unrepresentative bloated register can pose a more serious security threat than the EC’s security concern. If therefore such an election can produce security concerns then the EC must cancel the elections immediately.

If the EC also feels elections can produce security concerns, then we must abolish the Electoral Commission itself. Which means we must immediately abolish not only the EC itself, but also its chairperson’s and commissioners’ positions. Their mere presence can be argued to be a security concern. Is that what the new EC chairperson wants?

It is normal to push back ideas, forces, events, etc. that one does not want or believe. But every push back must have valid and supportable reasons. Giving flimsy excuses and showing signs that indicate that our EC Chairperson is tied to the hip of the NDC, and acts at the direction of the NDC’s presumed presidential candidate, leave us to believe that the EC is not an honest, objective, impartial and trustworthy organization.

We remain convinced that only a new voters’ register can lead to a peaceful, nonviolent, worry-free, fair and transparent elections in 2016. The wishes of the people of Ghana, their hopes and aspirations can challenge all contrary forces, even if those forces are backed by security and military personnel armed to the teeth.