Special voting in New Juaben South Constituency takes off smoothl

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Special voting for members of the Security Services, Electoral Commission officials and journalists took off smoothly in New Juaben South Constituency in the Eastern Region.

As at 1000 hours when GNA visited the police canteen at Galloway where the voting is taking place, 281 people had cast their ballot while others were waiting in a long queue for their turn.

A total of 925 eligible voters were expected to vote at the centre.

Party agents of People's National Convention, (PNC), National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP), were at the centre to monitor the voting.

Mr John Easmon, Returning Officer at the polling station, told GNA that people started forming the queue as early as 0630 hours and voting started at exactly 0700 hours.

He said only PNC, NDC and NPP had agents at the polling station since the commencement of voting. Mr Easmon said since morning the voting procedures had been running smoothly and had not recorded any incident.