The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has said it has made provisions to manually verify voters who are unable to do so using the fingerprint and facial recognition technology.

This was disclosed by EC Chair Jean Mensa in Parliament on Saturday, 7 November 2020 when she honoured the invitation of the house to brief MPs on the preparedness of the Commission toward the upcoming December polls.

The manual verification will, therefore, be used for persons who are unable to verify their details on 7 December via the other modes of verification.

According to the EC Chair, the Commission is confident that the manual mode of verification will be reduced due to the fingerprint and facial recognition modes of verification.

Mrs Mensa said: “The CI 127 makes provision for manual verification and, therefore, we have made provisions and arrangements to have manual verification forms sent to all the polling stations across the country. We are, however, confident that because we have two modes of verification, i.e. fingerprint and facial recognition, this will be reduced substantially.”

The EC Chair further disclosed the preparedness of the Commission toward the upcoming polls.

“Mr Speaker, I am pleased to inform you that the Electoral Commission is 95 per cent ready for the successful, credible, fair, orderly and peaceful conduct of the election on December 7, 2020.”

She further reiterated that Parliament has never invited her until now, thus, she has never turned down any invitation from parliament.

“It is important to emphasise that this is the first time I have been invited by the House in my capacity as the EC Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, I have on no occasion turned down an invitation from the Parliament of Ghana,” she stated.