A person found guilty of any form of electoral fraud in Ghana risks being jailed for two years or being fined ¢35,000 or both. This
is due to
the introduction of a new Instrument, the Public Elections
Registration of Voters Regulation, which is currently before parliament
and expected to come effect on Friday.
The
Constitutional Instrument 91 comes ahead of the Limited voter
registration exercise in April which will enable persons who could not
register during the last exercise and those who turned 18 years to
register.
It is reported that during such exercises and elections in general, minors and other impersonators register or vote.
The
Vice chairman of the subsidiary legislation, Kofi Osei Ameyaw has told
Accra-based Joy FM that the new regulation would deter people from
committing such electoral fraud.
"The punishment
is also for Ghanaians who are not qualified but still want to
register...That fraud must stop because if we are to get Ghanaians
electing our leaders there must not be any external forces coming in to
dictate to us," he said.
He added that the public
will be educated on the new Instrument so they will be aware of the
risk involved in committing that fraud.
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