Whistleblowers from the
Electoral Commission (EC) have told Whatsup News that the hierarchy of the
Commission has instructed polling station officers in charge of the Biometric
Verification Devices (BVDs) used during the just-ended general elections,
should delete all the data on the machines.
Apparently, the data is meant to
erase traces of discrepancies in the ECs figures used particularly to declare
President Akufo Addo as the winner of the presidential race.
Whatsup News has seen videos
provided by the whistleblowers deactivating the BVD machines per the
instructions from the Jean Mensah-led EC.
In one of the videos, a polling
station with some 300 verified voters simply erased the data. The whistleblower
captured the entire process of erasure in the videos supplied.
On a Whatsapp group of polling
station officers, one of them issued the instruction for the data deactivation,
saying: “We are deactivating the BVDs right now. The order came from the HQ
that all devices be deactivated so the number of voters won’t be known”.
Already, the EC has been
fingered for deliberately cooking the election results that systematically
caused the win of the incumbent President Akufo Addo.
Indeed, the Electoral Commission
has admitted that some of the figures presented yesterday, December 9, 2020 by
the EC boss Jean Mensah were faulty, saying she “inadvertently” made that
mistake.
“The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission inadvertently
used 13,433,573 as the total valid votes cast. The total valid votes cast is
13, 119, 460,” the EC said in a statement issued December 10, 2020.
In its defence, the EC claimed
the “inadvertent” mistake would not have changed any of the outcomes of the
elections, but experts and mathematicians have already torn into the EC, saying
if the so-called inadvertent mistake was put in proper perspective, President
Akufo Addo would not have secured the 51.96% that he reportedly scored to
become president.
Indeed, several arithmetic
scenarios prove that if the EC had not been stingy with the truth, the President-elect
would have only secured about 49%, which will be short of the 50% + 1 legal
threshold for being declared President.
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