The Electoral Commission (EC)
has mandated the Returning Officer to announce results of Election for a
Constituency after first summing-up the total number of votes cast for each
candidate at all polling stations in the constituency.
Outlining measures for the collation of results at
the Constituency Collation Centre, the EC in its Election 2020 Guide to Voters
manual available to the Ghana News Agency in Accra mandate the Returning
Officer to count all votes cast including votes cast on special voting day.
Mr Kwame Amoah, EC Greater Accra Regional Director
told the GNA that Returning Officers were the sole authority to declare the
winner for the Parliamentary Election at the end of every collation in the
constituency at the Constituency Collation Centre.
The Returning Officer is also under
obligation to announce the collated provisional results in respect of the
Presidential Election at the Collation Centre and forward same to the
Commission.
After the announcement, the Returning Officer will
endorse the results of the election on the Writ of Election (forms 1A and 1B)
and forward it to the District Officer.
In addition, a copy of the Constituency Summary
Result Sheets (Forms 1D and 10) duly endorsed by the Returning Officer and
Collation Agents should be sent to the District Electoral Officer and a copy
posted in a conspicuous place at the Constituency Collation Centre.
The EC also stressed that before the Regional
Collation Officer publically announces the Presidential Election Results for
the region, he or she must first collate the constituency results by adding the
total number of votes cast for each candidate as seen on the Presidential
Election Results Summary Sheet (Form 10) for all the various constituencies in
the region.
After the announcement, the RCO will send a copy of the Presidential
Results Summary Sheet (Form 12) to the Chairperson of the Commission, while a
copy is posted at the Regional Office of the Commission.
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