She explains the country’s electoral process and the reforms that have been implemented for the December 7 general elections make it impossible for her and any EC Chair to skew election results to favour a particular candidate.
“It is just not possible under the system,” she said on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, Thursday.
“For Charlotte Osei to [rig elections], she has to get the support and active involvement of her six co-commissioners, her 10 regional directors, the 200-plus District Electoral Officers, the 275 Returning Officers and their two assistants.
“Then when you get to the polling stations, for this year’s elections, Charlotte Osei, has to let all these people decide to tow one line. You are likely to have over 500,000 Agents for candidates per party and two Counting Agents per party at the Collation Centres. All these people must actively be working and changing the documents for Charlotte Osei to rig the elections.
“So I need to convince 500,000-plus people to skew the system in favour of one person. I haven’t figured out how to do that yet and it is not even a part of my value system that I will do that. Basically, it is impossible,” she told show host Paul Adom Otchere.
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been fiercely critical of the EC in the lead up to the general polls, fearing the Chairperson of the Commission, who was appointed by the President, intends to skew the December polls to favour him and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
From allegations that she once contested to be a legislator on the ticket of the NDC to claims that she is working to conduct the Presidential and Parliamentary polls with a bloated register, Mrs Osei has not won the trust of the NPP as the Commission prepares to conduct the crucial December elections.
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