The names of several security officers and some others who are voting in Thursday’s Special Voting exercise across the country ahead of the December 7, 2016 polls are reported to be missing in the Voters Register.

The prospective early voters, Kasapafmonline.com understands, went to their respective polling stations with the hope of casting their ballot only to be told by the Presiding officers of the Electoral Commission that their names were not in the voters roll.

Kasapa 102.5 FM reporters who have been spread across the various polling stations across the country to monitor the special voting exercise reports the affected are mostly, security personnel who will be policing the December 7 polls.

The affected, our reporters add, looked dejected upon finding their names missing in the register and have threatened to abandon their posts  on December 7 to also go and cast their votes at polling stations they registered their names.

At the Sunyani Regional Police Headquarters (Polling Station) in the Sunyani East Constituency, 891 prospective voters are expected to exercise their franchise in the early voting exercise.

Our reporter, Michael Mfum Sarpong reports that the first Police Officer who was expected to cast his ballot in the early voting exercise did not find his name in the voters register.

“You could see the expression on his face that he wasn’t happy,” Sarpong added.

The identity of the top Police Officer is immediately not known.

In the Suame (Breman polling station) constituency in the Ashanti Region, our reporter Justice Isaac Bediako reporters that 637 are expected to cast their ballot in the special voting exercise.

Most of the Police Officers, Bediako further reports, are complaining of not finding their names in the voters register.

According to him, the superiors of the Police Officers have assured their subordinates whose names are missing in the voters register not to worry about since they will be granted the opportunity to exercise their franchise on December 7, 2016.

In the Cape Coast South constituency ( in the Central Region, Kwaku Baah Acheamfour reports that the Electoral Commission of Ghana was apt in providing the materials needed for the special voting exercise.

However, he reports that several names are missing in the Voters Register with the affected expressing serious reservations about the anomaly.

At the Police Command, 788 are prospective voters are expected to cast their ballot in the special voting exercise while 684 are expected to vote at Fire Service Station.

In the Eastern Region, Kojo Ansah reports from Koforidua in the New Juaben North constituency that several Police and Prison Officers are complaining of their names missing in the voters register.

What is more disturbing, Ansah, reports is that the name of the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Peterkin Yentumi Gyinae, is also missing from the voters register.

The names of the affected Police personnel are reported to be in the voters register for other constituencies in the region.

The DCOP Peterkin Yentumi, according to Ansah, has granted his men and women permission to go round the other polling stations in the region to check where their names are and vote.

583 voters are expected to cast their ballot in the New Juaben North Constituency while 1,641 are expected to vote in the New Juaben South Constituency.

The story is not different from the Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Greater Accra and the Northern Region.

 Source: kasapafm