The Electoral Commission has rented generators as part of measures to prevent disruption of its limited voter registration exercise for first-time voters and persons who wish to own a voter card which begins today.

The 21-day exercise will end on May 27, 2024.

Chairperson of the EC, Madam Jean Mensa, has announced that the exercise aims at registering approximately 623,000 first-time voters across the country.

According to her “The registration will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. And that gives us the figure of 623,000 that we have put there. That is not to say that we cannot go beyond that. We did mention that in 2023, we projected 700,000 people to visit our registration centres.”

The EC boss further revealed that “We are trying hard to, we’ve made arrangements to ensure that we don’t have challenges because of dumsor. What we’ve done is to have all our district offices rent generators so that in the event where there’s dumsor, that can kick in.”

Madam Jean Mensa concluded that “However, should there be the unexpected, we would switch on to the offline and by offline it means the voters will be registered and their details will be put on a pen drive that will be copied in our offices when the light returns, so the registration will not be disrupted.”

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme