Voting ends in District Level elections, counting begins

Voting ended in several regions across
the country on Thursday in the District Level election and counting
has started at the various polling stations.
Voting was supposed to be held in all districts in the Western,
Brong Ahafo, Upper East and Northern Regions although many
electoral areas did not receive their ballot papers and could therefore
not vote.
The Eastern Region would now vote on Friday December 31.
The elections should have been held throughout the country on
November 28, but was postponed in several regions and districts
because ballot papers were not printed early.
A senior official of the Electoral Commission (EC) said the
elections would be completed before the end of the year to ensure
that “the circle of the assemblies does not change”.
Mr David Adeenze Kangah, Deputy Chairman for Finance and
Administration, told the Ghana News Agency in Tamale that the EC
would complete the elections in conformity with the circle of the
assemblies saying, “we are pushing everything in 2010”.
He said if the counting of the ballots stretches into 2011, it would
still not defeat the circle of the elections, since the elections were
conducted in 2010
GNA