7000 NHIS CARD REGISTRANTS IN ASHANTI VOTERS REGISTER

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A total of seven thousand, 106 persons in the Ashanti region have been identified to have registered with National Health Insurance Scheme ID Cards in 2012. 

The Atwima Nwabiagya Constituency has the highest number of more than one thousand 700 such registrants on the Voters Register with some other Constituencies having no record of such cases. 

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, Serebour Quarcoo, made this known to Ashanti Today in Kumasi. 

The EC’s Regional Director explained that the just-began Exhibition of the Voters’ Register across the country has two objectives. 

It is to afford voters who registered with NHIS Cards in 2012 the opportunity to re-register and also to enable legally registered voters to either confirm or correct mistakes with their personal data on the register. 

Mr. Quarcoo emphasized that even though it is important for registered voters to patronize the three-week Exhibition Exercise in their own interest, no one will be disenfranchised in the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections for failing to check his or her particulars.  

 According to him, the use of the biometric verification machines is to enable the EC to test correct what happened in 2012 when some voters were disenfranchised because their finger prints could not be verified.

 Mr. Quarcoo said Exhibition is not meant for the transfer of votes as that opportunity will be provided at a later date.

 On the deletion of data of registrants who might have died after the 2012 registration, the EC Regional Director said it is only the Courts that can order the deletion of any names from the register and therefore asked people to volunteer credible information for details of deceased or unqualified persons from the register. 

Meanwhile, the Exhibition Exercise has opened at all the over 500 Centres in the Ashanti region. 

An appreciable number of voters have so far patronized the exercise which began at 7 am today.

  

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