Ghana: EC and Political Parties Meet Over Verification Challenges

Members of the 250-strong Ecowas Observer Mission have been deployed across the country's 10 administrative regions to monitor presidential and parliamentary elections.(PHOTO ESSAY: Ghana's Presidential Elections 2012 )

Information available to Africa Election Project indicates that officials of the Electoral Commission are having an emergency meeting with all political parties official for possible changes in voting rules, especially concerning the verification.

Currently one cannot vote unless the verification process is carried out but with the breakdown of the machines at some centres, it appears the parties together with the EC might decide to relax the rules..more soon.

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