{"id":27322,"date":"2020-06-12T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27322"},"modified":"2020-06-18T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:57:33","slug":"ghana-compilation-of-new-voters-register-sc-to-deliver-judgement-on-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ghana-compilation-of-new-voters-register-sc-to-deliver-judgement-on-june-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Compilation of New Voters Register &#8211; SC to Deliver Judgement On June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Malik Sullemana<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Supreme Court will on June 23, 2020 deliver judgement on whether or not the existing voters&#8217; identification card should be used as form of identification in the upcoming mass voters&#8217; registration exercise later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">On March 26, 2020, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) dragged the Attorney-General and the EC to the apex court over the decision by the Commission to compile a fresh electoral roll for the December 7, 2020 polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A seven-member panel of the court presided over by the Chief Justice Anin Yeboah adjourned the case after lawyers for the NDC, the EC and the A-G made legal arguments to support their case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The EC had stated that it would compile a new voters&#8217; register for the presidential and parliamentary elections because the existing register was incurably defective for the purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">But the NDC, the biggest opposition political party in Ghana insisted that the exclusion of existing voters&#8217; ID card as a form of identification to obtain a new voters&#8217; ID card was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">At proceedings yesterday, counsel for the NDC, Godwin Tamakloe said the SC had held in the Abu Ramadan case that the existing voters&#8217; register for all practical purposes was a prima facie evidence of one&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"36\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"36\">The party want the court to hold that, upon a true and proper interpretation of the provisions of the constitution, particularly article 42, upon the registration of and issuance of a voter identification card to a person, that person has an accrued right to vote which cannot be divested in an arbitrary and capricious manner.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"36\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"36\">Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202006120653.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202006120653.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Malik Sullemana The Supreme Court will on June 23, 2020 deliver judgement on whether or not the existing voters&#8217; identification card should be used as form of identification in the upcoming mass voters&#8217; registration exercise later this month. 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