The Times in a banner story reports that the national campaign manager of the NPP, Mr Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, on Tuesday said that it has detected some discrepancies and errors in the Presidential voting results published by the Electoral Commission (EC) in its provisional figures released on December 11, 2000.
Addressing a press conference in Accra to draw the EC’s attention to the errors computed by an independent computer consultant, Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey said the investigations suggested that the data management system at the EC was of doubtful quality.
He said this was because the EC’s figures, which were not consistent at various stages in four regions for some presidential candidates, did not also tally with the totals given by the EC.
He said although the independent analysis did not change the final outcome of figures released by the EC suggesting a run-off, the discrepancies raised fundamental questions that needed to be addressed.
