Some voters in various centres in the Tema East Constituency were delayed from casting their ballot, due to identification and verification issues.
At the Oninku Drive School Polling Station at Community One, a number of voters whose names could not be found in the register and were unable to be verified by the electoral Official, were held up for some hours.
Officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) at some centres in Tema Manhean Anglican Primary School, struggled to capture voters’ fingerprints and facial recognition with the verification device, leaving mostly the elderly with issues of capturing and delay in voting.
Two of the affected elderly voters expressed unhappiness with the situation when the official asked them to wait for a while.
Mr Prince Oppong, the Presiding Officer at the Presby Church Oninku Drive with polling station number C230318, explained that the names of several voters could not be traced in the register.
He said he had notified the Returning Officer for the Tema East constituency about the peculiar challenge.
Meanwhile, at about 09:55 hours, Mr Manasseh Ofosuhene Asante, the Tema Metropolitan Electoral Officer, brought the corrected Voters Register for the Presby Church Oninku Drive polling station.
Mr Asante noted that he called the EC Head Office for a new register, indicating that the missing names issue was not a systemic challenge but rather a printing error.
He stated that he was notified by another polling station of a similar issue, but that had also been resolved.
By Ernestina Dika / Rebecca Armah, GNA
