{"id":37908,"date":"2023-03-14T07:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=37908"},"modified":"2023-03-15T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:29:35","slug":"ghana-electoral-commission-faces-resistance-over-new-voter-registration-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ghana-electoral-commission-faces-resistance-over-new-voter-registration-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Electoral Commission faces resistance over new voter registration requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonas Nyabor<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Ghana&#8217;s crucial general elections in 2024, the electoral commission is proposing a constitutional change that will make a controversial national identity card the sole document for confirming one\u2019s nationality and age to register as a voter. However, this move is being strongly opposed over fears that many citizens will be disenfranchised.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens without the Ghana Card will not be eligible for a voter ID card according to the proposal introduced to parliament by the election management body.<\/p>\n<p>The commission says it will no longer rely on an age-old guarantor system where a registered voter could vouch for the citizenship and age of a prospective voter.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/291530\/ghana-electoral-commission-faces-resistance-over-new-voter-registration-requirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/291530\/ghana-electoral-commission-faces-resistance-over-new-voter-registration-requirement\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jonas Nyabor Ahead of Ghana&#8217;s crucial general elections in 2024, the electoral commission is proposing a constitutional change that will make a controversial national identity card the sole document for confirming one\u2019s nationality and age to register as a voter. However, this move is being strongly opposed over fears that many citizens will be [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37911,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908\/revisions\/37911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}