Special Voting Today: EC Monitoring Affairs So Far

The Special Voting list covers security, media personnel, and election officials who will be unable to vote at the polling stations on December 7 because of their line of duty. With this in mind, special provisions are made for them to vote on December 1 (which is today).

The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it expects a near 100% voter turnout in today’s special voting exercise.

“In total, 109,557 people, made up of security persons, media people, and staff of the EC, applied to take part in the exercise in the 275 constituencies. It is instructive to note that this is the highest number the commission has recorded for special voting in its history,” she said.

“We expect a near 100 percent turnout and are confident that the outcome will be peaceful, credible, transparent and orderly, God being our helper,” the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, further told the media.

Addressing the latest edition of the ‘Let the Citizens Know’ series, Mrs Mensa also released the final voters register for the 2020 general election, in which 17,027,641 people have been certified to take part in the polls.