CHRAJ s interim report on the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections
Fellow Countrymen, International and Domestic Observers, as you are all aware, our country held its Eighth Presidential and Parliamentary Elections since returning to Constitutional rule in 1992 on Monday, 7th December 2020.
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice deployed 279 observers on December 7, 2020, made up of 41 Roaming and 238 Non-Roaming Observers.
Roaming Observers had oversight of a number of identified hotspots. Non-Roaming Observers, on the other hand, were stationed at Polling Centres where they observed proceedings at those Polling Centres from the commencement of polls to the counting of votes at those Centres.
Election 2020: CODEO records 235 incidents during voting
December 10, 2020 Mr Arhin
The Coalition of Domestic Observers (CODEO) had recorded 235 cases of various incidents from all the 4,400 polling stations where it deployed observers.
It said the top five of these reported incidents are intimidation/harassment, violation of COVID-19 health and safety protocols, violence of various kinds, unauthorised persons at polling stations and malfunctioning of biometric devices”,
In a press statement signed by Albert Arhin, the National Coordinator of CODEO said in the mid-day situational report it presented to the public on its findings on the set-up, the opening of polling stations, and few incidences received from 1,499 out of the 1,502 Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) Observers (i.e., 99.8%) located in all 275 Constituencies in the 16 regions of the country on Election Day.