The Electoral Commission as part of its mandate to update Ghanaians on the ongoing voter’s registration exercise has released comprehensive figures it gathered in all 16 regions on the ninth day of the exercise.
During the commission’s second ‘Let the Citizens Know’ media encounter, Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations at the Commission, Samuel Tettey, announced that over three million eligible Ghanaians have been duly registered in nine days.
Adding that over two million of the applicants presented Ghana Card as proof of their identification while about one million applicants got their voters ID through the guarantor system; representing 66.3% and 32.2%, respectively.
Only about 60,000 (1.5%) of the registrants presented their passport.
In an info graphics released by the commission, 399,107 eligible Ghanaians were registered on the ninth day of the exercise moving the already existing figures to 3,442,954.
Below is the breakdown:
