No Mask, No vote – EC cautions

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission  (EC), Benjamin Bannor-Bio has disclosed that electorates to go to the polling stations on election day without nose masks will be handed over to the police and will not be allowed to cast their ballot.

Mr. Benjamin      Bannor Bio revealed this at a workshop organized in collaboration with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for journalists in the region on Thursday, 26 November 2020 ahead of the December polls.

The Ashanti Regional Director of the EC indicated that the Commission will ensure strict compliance to the covid-19 safety protocols on 7 December.

“If the person does not wear a face mask and wants to come and vote, we’ll hand him or her to the Police. I must indicate here that we have supplied more than enough PPE to our officials and no polling station should run out of any PPE,” he said.
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Mr. Bannor-Bio also said that temperatures of citizens will be checked by the COVID-19 envoy, and electorates will be needed to wash their hands on arrival at the polling station just as they observe the social distance protocol.

The Ashanti Regional EC Director likewise noticed that voters will be made to sanitize their hands prior to utilizing the scan machine which will likewise be cleaned after every usage.

Voters will also be required to sanitize their hands before leaving the polling stations to avoid the spread of the disease.

Mr. Bannor-Bio further urged eligible voters to wear their nose masks and observe all the protocols put in place at the various polling stations.