Voters can’t take cameras into election booths - EC
Mrs Dadzawa said there should be no instance where voters would take cameras into the voting booths as this could reduce the character of the election with secret balloting.
That situation, she noted, could also encourage vote buying by politicians.
She was speaking at a workshop for journalists in the Central Region last Thursday.
Journalists in the region were taken through the electoral process from the start of voting to the declaration of the results.
Mrs Dadzawa noted that Ghana had made serious gains in its democratic dispensation and added that nothing must be done morally and legally to derail such gains.
She urged journalists to be vigilant and help ensure that the elections were transparent, free, fair and peaceful.
She further cautioned journalists to be cautious to ensure that their reports did not raise tensions in the communities.
Mrs Dadzawa said she was optimistic that Ghana would go through another peaceful election and urged all stakeholders to effectively play their roles to ensure this was achieved.
She also urged journalists to join in the appeal to parents to prevent their underage children who managed to register from voting on election day, adding that the less minors we get to vote, the less the possibility of confusion at the polling stations.
Mr Christian Parry who is in charge of Public Affairs at the EC said the EC was ready for the elections and that all was set to ensure a successful election.
The Central Regional Director of the EC, Mrs Philomena Edusei, pledged that the regional EC would cooperate with the press to ensure peaceful and fair elections next week.
Mr Serebour Quaicoe, deputy Central Regional Director of the EC, took journalists through the various activities at the polling stations and added that all necessary measures had been put in place to reduce irregularities in the elections to the barest minimum.
Journalists at the workshop pledged their support for a peaceful election.
Story by Shirley Asiedu-Addo
