Electoral Commission of Ghana Outlines Activities for 2023

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has outlined activities for 2023 as part of preparatory works leading to the 2023 District level elections.

ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES FOR 2023
DISTRICT-LEVEL ELECTIONS REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
Below are the scheduled dates followed by the number of days the activity will be carried out and the specific activities.

1 10/01-10/03/2023 60 Procurement of Educational, Registration, Exhibition and Election Materials
2 10/01-10/03/2023 60 Distribution of Registration Materials
3 10/01/2023 1 IPAC Meeting on Continuous Registration
4 10/01/2023 1 Press release on Continuous Registration
5 10/01-30/01/2023 14 Preparation and Distribution of BVR Kits
6 12/01-13/01/2023 2 RIPAC & DIPAC
7 24/01-30/01/2023 7 Testing of the VMS in the Districts
8 31/01/2023 1 IPAC Meeting on Continuous Registration
9 31/01/2023 1 Press release on Continuous Registration
10 02/02-03/02/2023 2 RIPAC & DIPAC on Continuous Registration
11 06/02-07/02/2023 2 KTT
12 09/02-10/02/2023 2 T.O.T
13 09/02-06/03/2023 26 Publicity on Continuous Registration
14 09/02-06/03/2023 26 Media Engagement on Continuous Registration
15 12/02-14/02/2023 3 Briefing of District Staff(Technical & Procedure)
16 16/02/2023 Continuous Registration of Voters
17 30/04/2023 1 Briefing & Swearing in of DRRC members
18 01/04-14/04/2023 14 Sitting of DRRC, challenges & adjudications
19 14/04-28/04/2023 15 Deduplication and adjudication

EXHIBITION OF THE VOTERS REGISTER

20 11/04-30/04/2023 20 Distribution of Exhibition materials
21 17/04-23/04/2023 7 Recruitment of Exhibition Supervisors and Officials
22 24/04-26/04/2023 3 Keying in of Exhibition Officials data
23 25/04-26/04/2023 2 KTT
24 28/04/2023 1 Data freeze
25 28/04-02/05/2023 5 Data processing and Splitting of Polling Stations
26 28/04-02/05/2023 5 Printing and Distribution of Training Registers
27 28/04-25/05/2023 28 Printing & Distribution of Provisional Registers
28 02/05/2023 1 IPAC Meeting

29 02/05/2023 1 Press release on Exhibition of the Voters register
30 04/05-05/05/2023 2 RIPAC and DIPAC
31 08/05-09/05/2023 2 T.O.T. on Exhibition Procedures
32 12/05-19/05/2023 8 Grassroots training for Exhibition Officials
33 15/05-26/05/2023 12 Publicity on exhibition and posting of Educational Posters
34 15/05-29/05/2023 15 Media Engagement
35 02/06-10/06/2023 8 Exhibition of the Voters Register
36 07/06/2023 1 Appointment and briefing of Revising Officers
37 08/06-22/06/2023 15 Adjudication, Keying in of corrections and inclusions
38 19/06-23/06/2023 5 Authentication of Voters Register

DISTRICT LEVEL ELECTIONS

39 09/06-14/06/2023 5 Stakeholder Engagements (Women, CSOs, PWDs) – National,
Regional & District levels
40 12/06-17/06/2023 6 Distribution & Posting of Notices, Nomination Forms,
Transfer and Proxy forms
41 12/06-16/06/2023 5 Interview & appointment of Returning officers and Deputy
Returning Officers
42 20/06/2023 1 Press Release on Elections, Nomination of Candidates,Recruitment of Election Officials, transfers and proxies
43 26/06/2023 1 Issuance of Writ
44 26/06/2023 1 Gazette publication of Writ of Election
45 17/05-21/05/2023 5 Transfer of Votes for Candidates
46 26/06/2023 1 Press release on Nomination of Candidates
47 29/06/2023 1 Briefing on Receipt of Nomination
48 03/07/-07/07/2023 2

Receipt of Nomination-District Assembly Election

49 03/07/-07/07/2023 2 Receipt of Nomination-Unit Committee Election
50 10/07-14/07/2023 5 Processing and submission of Nomination forms to Head
Office
51 13/07-17/07/2023 5 Posting of Notice of Nominations
52 13/07-10/09/2023 60 Distribution of other election materials
53 16/07-19/09/2023 60 Processing, Printing and Distribution of Notice of Poll and
Ballot Papers.
54 03/08/2023 1 Press release on IPAC Meeting
55 04/08-02/10/2023 60 Publicity on DLE
56 08/08-17/08/2023 10 Recruitment and keying in details of election officials in the
VMS
57 10/08/-21/08/2023 11 Transfer of Votes / Proxies
58 14/08-18/08/2023 5 Dialogue with Candidates at District Levels
59 19/08-28/08/2023 10 Printing and Distribution of Training Registers.
60 18/08-22/08/2023 5 KTT for Top Trainers
61 23/08-24/08/2023 2 KTT
62 23/08/2023 1 Final Data Freeze
63 29/08-08/09/2023 11 TOT – Procedure & Technical

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64 23/08-21/09/2023 30 Data Processing, Splitting of Polling Stations, Generation of
Barcodes & Extraction of Data for BVD
65 29/08-27/09/2023 30 Preparation and Distribution of BVDs for Training and
Election
66 31/08-20/09/2023 21 Printing and Distribution of Final Voters Register
67 01/09-30/09/2023 30 Media Engagement
68 10/09-15/09/2023 6 Posting of Notice of Poll
69 12/09-30/09/2023 19 Grassroots training – Procedure & Technical
70 12/09-16/09/2023 5 Servicing of Public Address System
71 13/09/2023 1 Press Release on the Platform Mounting
72 14/09/2023 1 Briefing of Platform Monitors
73 17/09-30/09/2023 14 Platform Mounting
74 19/09/2023 1 National Meeting to assess Final Preparation on Elections
75 21/09/2023 1 Press Release on Elections
76 03/10/2023 1 Election Day
77 04/10-08/10/1023 5 Submission of DLE Results to the Regions & Head Office
78 9/10-11/10/2023 3 Submission of Writ of Election to the District Assembly
79 18/10/2023 1 Breaking of Ties for DLE
80 25/10-26/10/2023 2 Gazette Publication of DLE Results
NB.
Some of the dates will be subject to change depending on the exigencies of the
time.