Ghana: 6.5 Million Biometric Voter Registrations in Sixteen Days

Ghana's electoral exercise is all over the news today. December's election figures to be very close and things are starting to heat up. Politics and emotion surround the biometric registration effort and not all the news is good.

The following article is a straightforward report of voter registration progress by region.

Biometric Registration: 6.5million Register (Ghana Web)

Sixteen days into the 40-day biometric voters registration exercise, the Electoral Commission (EC) has registered 6.5 million voters.

According to a source at the EC, the number of applicants registered so far was 35 per cent ahead of target, since the EC had only expected to register about 4.8 million voters during the period

Other news on the non-biometric aspects of the voter registration process may be found here.