The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) is urging the Electoral Commission (EC) to enhance transparency in Ghana's electoral process by publishing the results of all polling stations on its website before announcing the final results of the pending 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

According to a senior research fellow at IDEG, Kwesi Jonah, by implementing these measures, the Commission will strengthen its democratic process.

Although Ghana's democracy is ranked as the sixth most stable in the world, Kwesi Jonah believes adopting such transparency measures will further consolidate the country's democratic gains.

“We know that there are certain weaknesses, certain lapses in our democracy, and some of these weaknesses relate to the electoral process," he is quoted in a report by myjoyonline.com.

He further noted that “The European Union, which since 2012, has consistently observed elections in Ghana, has always come out with certain recommendations to help us reform in order to fast track our democracy and not backtrack it.

“One of them has to do with the publication of polling station results officially on the websites of the Electoral Commission,” he said.

He explained that adopting such measures would prevent some political parties from saying the results had been rigged.

“There is no serious political party that can say that we don’t have the results, polling station by polling station results, because our system of elections is such that at every polling station, there are two agents for the political party, one for the presidential candidate and one for the parliamentary candidate,” he said.

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