Thursday, 17 March 2016

Nov polls: Lokko advocates e-voting

Progressive People Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 election, Eva Lokko, has suggested the use of electronic voting in the November general elections to ensure a transparent conduct of the polls.

She disagreed with the view of her party chairman, Allotey Brew Hammond, who had earlier called on the EC to assign independent auditors to monitor electronic transmissions of general election results.

Speaking to Class News’ Parker-Wilson, Ms Lokko said electronic voting would prevent wasted votes.

“All you need is electronic voting. Now electronic voting is so simple that we will not be having these wasted votes that get thrown away, spoilt ballots; we won’t have it because if you are going to vote, you press a button,” Ms Lokko insisted.

“…The second one is that it is so fast. The third one is that if things are structured properly, in electronic [voting], it's encrypted and nobody can stop it except a hacker. I am not saying that it is impossible, but then you bring credibility and remove the doubt."

Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and other civil society organisations have called for a new voters' register to ensure free and fair elections, but the EC insists the 2012 register will be cleaned and re-used.

Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com/91.3fm

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