The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has issued an appeal to the Electoral Commission (EC) not to pursue legal action against individuals who acted as guarantors for more than ten applicants during the recently concluded Limited Voter Registration exercise.

The party contends that prosecuting those who abused the guarantor system would be unproductive. The CPP criticized the EC for not implementing safeguards within its registration systems to prevent individuals from guaranteeing for more than ten applicants during the registration process.

Speaking during a press conference in Accra, Nana Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah, the Chairperson and Leader of the CPP, emphasized that the EC should bear responsibility for the vulnerabilities in the registration system and should utilize technology to rectify these issues.

On Tuesday, the EC had announced its intention to prosecute those who had guaranteed for more than ten applicants in violation of the registration law. Furthermore, the identities of such individuals would be publicly disclosed.

According to the registration law, eligible applicants without a Ghana Card or a Ghana Passport, which could establish their Ghanaian citizenship, were required to present two registered voters to vouch for their citizenship and age.

Nana Frimpomaa mentioned that it would be unjust for the EC to publicly disclose the identities of individuals who exceeded the limit of guaranteeing for more than 10 applicants.

She contended that some of those who committed this violation might genuinely be unaware of the registration law. Therefore, the Commission should have implemented preventative measures to mitigate such abuses.

“All EC could have done was to ensure that by the time the guarantor hits the tenth guarantee, that system should have refused the 11th one. That is how simple technology is supposed to be.

“If the system allowed the person to go beyond the 10th application, that lapse is not the individual; that lapse is with the EC,” she argued.