EC's results consistent and accurate - CODEO

Kandey Alhassan December 10, 2020 0

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) maintains that its findings in the elections that have just ended are in consistent with those of the Electoral Commission (EC).

CODEO made this clear in a comprehensive election article.

CODEO used the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) technique to track the 2020 presidential election, much as it did in 2008, 2012 and 2016.

The PVT technique is a credible instrument accessible to independent and non-partisan citizens' election observation organizations around the world to check the accuracy of the results of the official presidential elections.

“Given that the official result announced by the Electoral Commission for each candidate falls within their respective PVT estimated confidence ranges, CODEO can confidently confirm that its PVT estimates are consistent with the official presidential election results,”

Provided information on how elections were conducted across the country, CODEO suggested that the two major parties – the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) – had party agents in more than 99 per cent of the polling stations during the elections.

“Observers also reported that the two main parties (NDC and NPP) had party agents at over 99% of polling stations,” the statement added.

It advised contestants in the presidential election “to place confidence in the official presidential results as declared by the Electoral Commission.”

“We encourage any party or candidate with issues about the presidential results to peacefully resolve these through proper legal and procedural channels. CODEO appeals to Ghanaians to remain calm, law-abiding and allow the systems to work.”

The EC had earlier rectified the anomalies in the presidential election results percentages declared on Wednesday, December 9, 2020.

In a statement, the EC acknowledged that the Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa “inadvertently used 13,433,573 as the total valid votes cast.”

“The total valid votes cast is 13,119,460. This does not change the percentages stated for each candidate and the declaration made by the Chairperson,” the EC said in the statement issued Thursday morning, December 10, 2020.

The EC has since provided a summary of the 2020 presidential election results without the Techiman South constituency.