EC Pilots The New Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) Ahead Of June 30 Registration Exercise

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Thursday, June 18, piloted the new Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits it had procured for the mass registration of voters for the December 7, 2020 general election, with an assurance that no eligible Ghanaian will be disenfranchised.

The Director of Elections at the Commission, Dr Serebour Quarcoo, who gave the assurance, said minor challenges associated with the BVR kits had been identified and that they would be fixed to guarantee a smooth registration exercise.

He, however, said the EC had not taken delivery of all the BVRs and that the full component of the kits would be ready before the registration exercise.

"Some of the BVR kits were brought into the country less than a month now so we want to try them and have a feel of how the system will work. For the main registration exercise, we expect 8,500 BVR kits, but not all of them are in the country now. By the time we start the exercise, we hope that all of them would have arrived," the director added.

Source: Graphic.com.gh