The NDC has withdrawn its case at the Supreme Court questioning the power of the Electoral Commission to compile a new Voters’ Register.
This follows a directive from the Supreme Court for the Party to make a choice between which of the two reliefs they wanted a decision on. Lawyer for the NDC, Godwin Tamakloe, opted for a ruling on the use of the old Voter ID, dropping the claim of unconstitutionality of the decision by the EC to compile a new Register.
The NDC is seeking an order to stop the EC from compiling a new voter register and an alternative order declaring as illegal the decision of the EC not to consider the old voter ID cards as a proof of citizenship for registering to vote.
The Court at its sitting last Thursday directed the Electoral Commission to submit its legal justification for seeking to exclude the Voter ID Card from the required list of proof of eligibility to register to vote in the 2020 General Elections. This has subsequently been done with the NDC further filing a supplementary statement.
