The Electoral Commission (EC) has assured Ghanaians of its commitment to provide accurate figures and information as the December 07 polls approaches.
The EC says it has replaced the Coral Draw with excel and wouldn’t be doing calculations manually anymore.
This comes on the back of some errors detected in the data provided by the Commission during the limited voter registration exercise which it acknowledged and rectified.
The Commission was severely criticised by the public for the errors, making people question the competence of the election management body to effectively deliver on its mandate as the December polls approaches.
At an engagement with the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) and other stakeholders, Chairperson of the EC, Jean Adukwei Mensa, urged the public to maintain confidence in the Commission.
“Whilst I do not hold brief for the team, because they were relying on Coral Draw to come up with these pie charts and graphs and so on, they were doing it manually. And so what we have done is go back to the drawing board and use Excel.
“And so we may not have those colourful graphs, and the focus should not be on that because the application that was being used was not able to do accurate tabulations, so you will find that people had to do it manually.
“So the Coral Draw has been abandoned, and Excel has been applied. But again, I say this because we are a listening Commission and intend to build trust, you come back and let the people know what went wrong and what has been done,” she explained.
