
There have been several elections in Ghnaa since 1992, and almost all of these elections have some levels of outcome challenges.
What is, however, intriguing in the 2024 elections is the crisscrossing of the heightened tension involving pinksheets (shattering, scattering, burying, varnishing, and displacement).
Before the 2024 elections, the Electoral Commission of Ghana gave a standard rule of pinksheets being pasted at vantage points at polling stations, which serve as an additional layer of corporate control and outlook transparency.
One is surprised to hear that at some constituency collation centers, political party agents can’t account for, nor find the full components of verified pinksheets given to them by election officers at respective polling stations.
We are also witnessing situations where EC Collation officers at constituency collation centers complain of the non-existent of pinksheets which is adding to the suspicion and the usual nature of the 2024 elections, and the subsequent re-collations and supposedly rerunning of certain polling station elections.
The organisers of 2024 elections must stir up affairs (investigate and prosecute), election fraud, and pinksheets crimes to serve as a deterrence, otherwise, this year’s election is gradually gaining notoriety as one of the worse, if not the more problematic one in the history of Ghana
The procedural compliance of the 2024 election is flattered and flattened at many fronts, effects of Election violence and insecurity is higher and, trust in the process, particularly, at constituencies with problematic collation issues is dwindling, and the early something positive is seen being done about it, the image and integrity of Election managers in Ghana could be dented further.
Richard Kumadoe
Founder, Independent Election Security and Compliance Watchers.
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