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NDC's election collation system crashed during the 2016 election - Pelpuo

By Clement Edward Kumsah
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Wa Central MP Rashid Pelpuo
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A former Minister of state at the Presidency has confirmed claims that the NDCs election results collation system broke down completely at the most critical moments of the 2016 election.

Rashid Pelpuo, says the development prevented the leadership from knowing the exact trend of exit polls at the height of the vote counting exercise.

His comments follow the release of the Kwesi Botchwey Committee report that recommended among other things, that measures should be put in place to improve the collation of election results by the party.

The leadership of the NDC became a laughing stock during the collation of results in the 2016 elections, when Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho declared at a press conference that the party was in a “comfortable lead and cruising to victory” when in fact results from almost every quarters indicated they were losing.

Information later surfaced that the party’s collation system disintegrated, but this has neither been confirmed nor denied by any leading member.

Speaking on Citi FM, the Member of Parliament for Wa Central said “As at the time NPP was churning out results and claiming victory, the NDC had not gotten a grasp of what was happening. Our system even broke down and we could not assess the results the NPP was getting, neither could we see what we were even getting so there was a problem there.

He urged the party to update their technology to enable the real-time transfer of results during the 2020 elections.