Ghana not ready to implement E-Voting – Ghana’s Electoral Commission

Ghana is not ready for electronic voting, Dr Serebuor Quaicoo, Director of Elections at the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) has said.

In his view, there is so much suspicion among the political parties in Ghana, therefore, when the elections management body adopts the electronic voting system, which, according to him does not make it easy to prove allegations of electoral malpractices, it will further deepen the suspicion.

“I don’t think Ghana is ready for e-voting,” he said on Accra FM on Monday, 8 July 2019.

“There is a particular political party in Ghana that is always calling for e-voting but what I can say is that we are not there yet,” he said.

He added: “The suspicion in our elections is very high and, so, when the technology comes in now, it will be problematic. With the electronic voting, there is no way you can verify but with what we have now, all the agents of the parties and the media see what is going on in terms of the collation of the results”.

“In my opinion, we are not there yet; it is a gradual process. We will get there one day but the time has not come yet”, Dr Quaicoo reiterated.