Voting at Ledzokuku goes peacefully
Voting started smoothly at exactly 7 a.m. at My Brother Polling Stations A and B in the Ledzokuku Constituency in Accra.
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A perennial first voter, Mr John Arthur Morrison, once again was the first person to cast a ballot at the My Brother Polling Station B, which has 553 voters on the register.
Mr Morrison, whose nick-name ‘My Brother’ the Polling Station adopted, said he started the queue at 2 a.m.
Presiding Officer of Polling Station B, Mr Samuel Opintan, said electoral materials arrived in time to a waiting electoral team, which members had also arrived at about 5 a.m.
Although there was a sizeable queue of about 140 persons for both stations, voting was orderly, calm and peaceful.
Soiled ballots
Mr Opintan said he expected voting to continue that orderly and peacefully without any incident.
Within five minutes into the voting, however, two persons asked for their soiled ballots to be changed, which was done to the agreement of all stakeholders at the Polling Station. See more photos
Not all rosy
It was not all rosy at the Penny Taxi Rank Polling Station also in the same Constituency.
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The centre has three Polling Stations A, B and C which has given rise to long winding queues which was causing a bit of anxiety at the station.
Voting started at around 7:45 a.m. not because election materials arrived late, but the centre was too small for the polling station which has been split into three, from the previous two.
Polling Station A has 873 voters on the register; B has 704 with C containing 541 names of voters.
The large numbers on the electoral roll and the long queues caused a little agitation and anxiety.
A septuagenarian, Mr Daniel Sowah, who was the first to cast a ballot at the centre, said he joined the queue at about 5 a.m. and was accorded the courtesy to start the process. A large number of them started queuing at about 2 a.m.
Optimism
The three Presiding Officers at the stations expressed the optimism that the polls will go well generally at the three polling stations.
One of them, Mr Moses Doku, appealed to voters not to be deterred by the initial frustrations at the centre and decline to vote.
Graphic Online checks across the constituency indicated that voting has been generally peaceful in the Constituency.