The Ghana Card must be used as the only form of identity for voter registration, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).
Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services at the EC, stated at a forum held at the University of Ghana on Thursday, June 15, ““We are satisfied that we have addressed impersonation to a large extent, we have addressed double registration and multiple voting to a large extent, but how do we address the registration of minors and the registration of foreigners?
“I believe the politicians will now help us because most often than not they are those who recruit those people and end up accusing the EC of having registered minors.
“But the EC thinks that one way of addressing this is to use the Ghana Card and there have been lots of arguments that we are still battling it out.
“We are still insisting that let us use the Ghana Card so that we can address the issue of minors because their dates of birth will be on the card and their citizenship will also be on the card. That will also reduce drastically the registration of minors and foreigners.”
Parliament on Friday, March 31 rejected the Public Elections (Registration of Voters ) Regulations, 2023 Constitutional Instrument (CI) proposed by the EC.
