The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana is to swap the existing cardboard voting booths with plastic ones for the upcoming December polls, an official of the EC’s Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Mr Fred Tetteh has hinted.
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The EC a few months ago outdoored a new logo alongside a five-year strategic plan, and as such, the introduction of the all-white plastic booths could only be in line with the rebranding agenda of the Commission, under the new chairperson Mrs. Charlotte Osei.
According to Mr Tetteh, the country’s electoral system is much better as compared to Nigeria and Kenya because, at the same time as a registered Ghanaian voter is allowed to vote during an election with/without a voter ID card, the opposite is the what happens in the aforementioned  countries.Â
“Our electoral process is such that, so far as a person’s name is on the register, that person can vote during the election even if he/she did not take along the voter ID card to the polling station. All that is required is for you to mention your name to the officer there, who will verify from the register, but in the case of Nigeria and Kenya, the I.D card is the only way you can be identified as a voter, so without it, you are automatically disenfranchised,†he told journalists during presentation on the Ghanaian electoral process at a pre-election training programme on Saturday.
The workshop held in Accra was intended at equipping journalists with relevant knowledge and skills in readiness for the polls in December.
National Coordinator for Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), Mr. John Larvie, who was one of the facilitators at the programme, also admonished journalists to acquaint themselves with the electoral laws and legislations, in order to ensure accurate reportage on the electoral process.Â