Nkawkaw (E/R), Jan 4, GNA – There was low turn out for the
District Assembly and Unit Committee elections at most polling
centers in the Kwahu West Municipality. The election, which was scheduled to come on December 30
2010, had to be postponed to January 04 as the Electoral
Commission (EC) failed to provide voting materials for 20 out of
the 26 electoral areas in the municipality. As at 0830 hours only three registered voters had cast their
votes at the Post Office 93B” polling center out of 643 registered
voters while eight people out of 814 registered voters had voted at
Post Office 93A” polling center as at 0835 hours at the Nkawkaw-
Asuogya electoral area.
At the other centers visited, between 26 and 157 people had
cast their votes as against registered voters of between 473 and
1,690. Some of the registered voters interviewed attributed the low
turn-out to the postponement of the election several times as most
of the electorate were not sure that the elections would be held on
Tuesday. Mr Asare Amoako, a returning officer, said adequate voting
materials had been sent to all the 20 electoral areas where the
elections could not be held on December 30 last year.
Source: GhanaWeb
