Intermittent rains, coupled with cold weather and low turn-out, characterized the first day of the voter register exhibition exercise in the Ashanti region.
The seven-day voter register exhibition exercise by the Electoral Commission (EC) is to create opportunity for all registered voters to check and verify their names in the national electoral roll to enable them to participate in the upcoming December general elections.
A visit to some of the exhibition centres by the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday August 20, 2024, the first day of the exercise, indicated a very low turn-out.
Some people, including political activists, EC officials and election watchers, who spoke to the GNA, said it could be due to the intermittent rainfall all day, which was associated with cold weather.
Others also attributed it to the usual Ghanaian attitude of waiting till the last minute to do things.
At the Asawase Post Office Exhibition Centre, less than 20 voters had verified their names as at 1330 hours when the GNA visited the centre.
At the Municipal Electoral Office exhibition centre at Nkawie, only 13 out of the 507 voters on the voters register verified their names on the first day of the exercise.
Twenty seven out of the 491 voters checked their names at the Nkawie-Kumaa Old Mosque exhibition centre one, 11 out of 290 checked their names at the Old Mosque centre two.
Mr. Yussif Samah, the Officer in-charge of the New Mosque exhibition centre, told the GNA that 40, out of the 409 voters verified their names on the first day.
At the Cooperative Centre, also at Nkawie, 41 out of 548 registered voters verified their names on the first day of the exercise, while the Nkawie-Kumaa old palace centre recorded 73 out of a total of 831 voters.
The atmosphere at the various centres visited was calm and peaceful.
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