Politics of Sunday, 28 December 2008

Source: GNA

Election Region -Nyatsiasa

Low voter turn-out characterised voting in most polling stations in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Constituency on Sunday for the Presidential Run-Off. Some electorate the Ghana News Agency spoke with said they

were interested in the parliamentary elections more than the

presidential. Six out of 371 registered voters at the Co-operative Shed

Polling Station at Nyatsiasa, in Ajumako Besease had cast their

votes as at 0715 hours. At the Methodist Primary 'B' Polling Station, 27 out of 518

registered voters had cast their votes as at 0730 hours. Again at Methodist Primary 'A' Polling Station 17 out of a

voter population of 552 had cast their votes as at 0735 hours. The Anglican Primary 'A' Polling Station at Bantama recorded

62 out of the total 803 registered voters as at 0805 hours. By 0815 hours at the Methodist Primary 'B' Polling Station

100 people out of 668 eligible voters had cast their votes. At the Anglican Junior High School at Bantama 86 out of the

473 registered voters had voted as at 0827 hours. There was no Security Officer present as at the time GNA

visited the station. The Post Office Polling Station saw 85 out of the 272

registered voters who came to exercise their franchise as at 0905

hours. At the SCMB Cocoa Shed 'A' Polling Station, 109 out of the

total 362 voters had voted as at 0920 hours. 28 Dec. 08