IEA urges Electoral Commission to recruit highly-trained election officials

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has asked the Electoral Commission (EC) to recruit highly-trained people to serve as election officials. 

It also called for those who act negligently to undermine the nation’s electoral process to be punished. 

A Research Fellow at IEA, Dr Ransford Gyampo, told Radio Ghana that the Presiding Officers, Polling Assistants and Returning Officers played a very crucial role in the country’s electoral process and therefore the credibility of the nation’s electoral process as well as the acceptance of election results as free and fair, peaceful and transparent, to a large extent, depend on these officials. 

He said currently, the EC conducts a written examination to select those who engage in voter registration and other election duties. 

However, Dr Gyampo said in the IEA’s view, it was high time the Electoral Commission reviewed its syllabus and raised the standard of the examination. 

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