To demonstrate this sense of commitment, the commission has adopted a number of strategies to equip its staff to adequately prepare them for the task ahead.
Speaking to Radio Ghana in Bolgatanga, the Deputy Director In-Charge of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at the EC, Alexander Poku Akubia said the commission through a credible selection process, has engaged first degree and master holders to represent as Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, and Polling Assistance.
According to him, they have received in-depth training and made to swore before a magistrate to affirm their commitment to the electoral process.
He said polling agents will not be left out.
Focusing on the eligibility criteria, Mr. Poku Akubia told Radio Ghana’s Correspondent Isaac Asare, that the commission intend using collation officers who are mathematically inclined to do the collation and disclosed that this time round, there will be a projection of an electronic score board to display election results at the full glare of electorates.
The move, he noted is to ensure transparency and this shall take place at the collation centers so that as the results trickle in from the polling stations, what is being collated will be projected on a large electronic screen.
Mr. Poku-Akubia who was satisfied with the level of publicity undertaken by the EC said public education was ongoing and that a number of voter educators shall be deployed to the smaller units within the communities to educate people on the electoral processes.
He tasked the media to adhere strictly to their professional ethics and use civil language in their reportage.
He moreover, warned them against the misuse of terminologies that have the tendency to incite violence.
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